Quotes About Recognition

In his first teaching, the Buddha compares the stages of freeing the mind to recovery from an illness: if we don't first recognize that we are ill, we won't seek help.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

Up until now, I thought I knew what was and wasn't possible. Maybe that's what innocence is, having no way to predict the pain of the future. When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all. That's the best way I can put it. I look in the mirror and I know it's me, but I can't quite recognize myself.

But I recognized them by the ambition that clung to their skins like spicy cologne, the slight breeze of power that stirred the air, and finally, a mourning that left my mouth tasting of ash.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Carl had been caught by surprise: he could recognize a face that smiled regularly, or a face that frowned regularly, even if it were unlined. He was curious as to how her face had developed such a close familiarity with so many expressions, and yet normally revealed nothing.

One of the interesting things about prosopagnosics is that while they can't recognize a face, they still have an opinion as to whether it's attractive or not. When asked to sort photos of faces in order of attractiveness, prosopagnosics sorted the photos in pretty much the same way as anyone else.

Is it more respectful to treat him like a human being, or to accept that he isn't one?

I knew for certain that being accorded a biography isn't dependent on one's species or one's fame.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

I feel really proud of my career - more here in England than in Spain. There are different mentalities. Here the people respect you.

In Spain you can't do anything. If you drive, everyone recognises you; at a restaurant you have paparazzi outside.

If you want to make your mark as a footballer, you think England, Germany, Italy, Spain. Maybe France or Holland. But not China, not the Middle East.

In a short span of time, I happened to do quality films and managed a good fan-following.

When a Spanish actor does an accent, that's sexy. When Peter Sellers did a French accent in 'Pink Panther,' that's funny - he got nominated for a Golden Globe. How come whenever an Asian actor does an accent, he's stereotyping?

Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.