Quotes About Recognition

It always great to feel that you're wanted by somebody, especially when you're talking about a team like the Golden State Warriors.

My strangest experience was my six words in 'Star Wars.' I've had more fanmail from that than anything I've ever done.

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

It's a huge blessing to know you've done something that has affected people the way 'The Matrix' has. It's like, there's 'Star Wars,' and then there's 'The Matrix.' It's cool to be a part of that.

A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'

I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.

Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop. He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

Standing there in her robe, that ridiculous robe, with the socks and slippers bulging from the pockets, Jonas saw a glint, the sparkle of a buried gem, in Tenley. He saw a woman worthy of love. Deserving of a man who would give her himself.

My brother ," I said with emphasis, in case the snow had blinded her and she hadn't realized exactly who she'd been standing there with.

I leaned forward slightly. I'd recognize the pink coat with the furry collar and cuffs anywhere. "That's Allie," I said, stunned. "Looks like," Joe said, his voice contained no real surprise, and I wondered exactly what I'd missed out on yesterday. Because she was standing at the edge of the trees, and she wasn't alone. She was with Sam. Caught in a lip-lock that I thought might require the expertise of the mountain rescue team to break apart.

Thanks a lot, Allie." I grimaced not for the first time at the realization that he couldn't remember my name, then I decided I was definitely over the guy. "You're welcome, Bart." "Brad." "Kate." "Huh?" I wanted to laugh. "I'm Kate.

That he had not the slightest idea who he was without praise, without steady advancement toward a degree and title, without organized competition for some elite goal?

He understood that this was the overseer's main skill, to recognize what was within human limits, but just barely. "Within, but just barely" was the optimum calibration, the unit of profit.

appreciated

The places in which we are seen and heard are holy places. They remind us of our value as human beings. They give us the strength to go on.

When we recognize the spark of God in others, we blow on it with our attention and strengthen it. No matter how deeply it has been buried or for how long .... When we bless someone, we touch the unborn goodness in them and wish it well.

The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.

When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you ' really kind of cool you know.