Quotes About Recognition

Posterity gives every man his true value.

The only thing you really have to prove is yourself.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

There is no limit to the good a man can do, if he doesn?t care who gets the credit.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

Dame Catriona. Det fikk henne til å virke veldig viktig, men hun følte seg bare forvirret. For en utrolig ære å bli tildelt for en som hadde startet livet bakerst i en malt varietevogn.

In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they've zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was.

I didn't believe her, of course. The lie was transparent—it something that size, someone would have mentioned it during the door-to-door--and it went straight to my heart as no sonata ever could have; because I recognized it. That's my twin brother, his name's Peter, he's seven minutes older than me. . . . Children—it and Rosalind was little more—it don't tell pointless lies unless the reality is too much to bear.

It's ironic, isn't it? A hundred psychology students, and not one of us recognized a classic psychopath. You know the strange thing? I wished I had done everything he claimed I had. If I had, then it would all have made sense: I would have been getting what I deserved. But I hadn't done any of it, and yet that made absolutely no difference to what happened. There was no such thing as cause and

You know something?" Frank said, after a moment. "You've got a bad habit of taking too much credit for the stuff other people do around you.

But you've seen plenty of her, from your

It looked vaguely, frustratingly familiar, but I couldn't tell whether this was because I actually remembered it or because I knew I should.

She wasn't that smart after all. Susanna, of all people, should have realized how those great upheavals can crack bedrock, shift tectonic plates, transform the landscape beyond recognition.

Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us.

In the Dalai Lama's words, "One of the deepest human desires is to be known and understood.

recognize them as mere thoughts, seeing them as well-worn ruts in the mind: "Oh, I'm having those thoughts again." As we recognize them for what they are, we break their tyranny in the mind.

Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion.

Only someone you know is going to assume you know them by saying 'it's me.' It's strangers who use names, since they know you don't know who they are." I'm terrified to think that that almost made sense.

Contrary to the prevalent image of the egoist as oblivious to all standards and moved entirely by what he wants, when he wants it, Rand sees such an erratic, emotion-driven course as a sure way to sabotage one's well-being. Serving one's interest requires action guided by the recognition of certain constant, fundamental facts. These facts are the basis of moral principles.

The service of great kings may carry its own rewards, but the service of truth goes unrewarded and is, for that very reason, worth far more.

Puri found the walls bare, his secretary having put away all his accolades, including his signed and personalized Kenny G album cover

Guru-ji, I am the winner of the Super Sleuth World Federation of Detectives award for 1999. Also, I was on the cover of India Today magazine. It's a distinction no other

You are not the one you see in the mirror. You are the one who is shining in the eyes of others

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.