Quotes About Recognition

So, I need to reacquaint myself with this sort of celebrity person I seem to be. Someone who was in an iconic, blockbuster film called Star Wars.

Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time.

Attention, people talking about me: I. Am. Right. Here.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

Winning is overrated, because winning and losing are both your acceptance of being rated.

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

We do not have to discover in which of several people Christ is to be found; we must look for Him in them all. And not in an experimental spirit, to discover whether He is in them . . . but with the absolute certainty that He is. . . . Christ does not choose to be known through outward appearances—even the appearance of virtue.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there. "It's a girl," Jace said,recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

All some people want from you is for you to recognize their existence — and not mind it.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artist's fame.

But recognition is often unsatisfying and fame is like sea-water for the thirsty. Love of your work, willingness to stay with it even in the absence of extrinsic reward, is good food and good drink.

Since God works among imperfect human beings in historical settings, "pure" or "perfect" Christianity can seldom if ever exist in this world. God in his grace works through our limitations; for that very reason we should ask for the grace to recognize what those limitations are. So we may—and ought to—carefully identify the cultural forces which affect the current versions of Christianity.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

2The verb naturalize clearly proves what the British think of you. Before you are admitted to British citizenship you are not even considered a natural human being.

I had been shocked by the findings of the polls, and several newspaper reports, that a large number of voters didn't know who I was.