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Quotes About Recognition

I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
~ Ned Vizzini
I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them.
~ Ned Vizzini
It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.
~ Ned Vizzini
Sir William Herschel was the first person to discover a planet beyond those easily visible to the naked eye, and he was ready to name it after the King—always a safe bet when you are his subject. Had Sir William succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Not until 1987 is homosexuality removed entirely from the formal list of mental "disorders" compiled by the American Psychiatric Association.12 Computers
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
They say that when you meet someone and feel like it's love at first sight, run in the other direction. All that's happened is that your dysfunction has meshed with their dysfunction. Your wounded inner child has recognized their wounded inner child, both hoping to be healed by the same fire that burned them.
~ Neil Strauss
He asked her what she was famous for—everybody's famous for something
~ Neil Strauss
He was validated. She was validated. They validated each other. They were a perfect pair, each completely unaware of the other. At
~ Neil Strauss
women tend to respond to status and social proof.
~ Neil Strauss
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart.
~ Neil Strauss
Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before her very eyes on the roof of the Drayton sat a Negro? Absurd!
~ Nella Larsen
paintings. I recognized "The Rape of the Sabines," by Da Bologna, which is one of the few classical paintings I can name.
~ Nelson DeMille
I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.
~ Nelson DeMille
the rule is, If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.
~ Nelson DeMille
and you just keep saying, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, because you've heard all this before, you've already been where he's been, because he's telling you about a town you know like the back of your hand.
~ Nic Kelman
And what physicians say about consumptive illnesses is applicable here: that at the beginning, such an illness is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
IT IS customary for such as seek a Prince's favour, to present themselves before him with those things of theirs which they themselves most value, or in which they perceive him chiefly to delight.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
But when they had to form a particular judgment on the men of their own party, they recognized their defects, and decided that individually no one of them was deserving of what, collectively, they seemed entitled to; and being ashamed of them, turned to bestow their honours on those who deserved them. Of
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Z?o, poznane z daleka leczy si? szybko, lecz gdy wskutek tego, ?e nie zosta?o rozpoznane, pozwala si? na jego wzrost, tak ?e ka?dy je rozpozna, nie ma ju? lekarstwa
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
ahmo zan nikocitlewa, ahmo zan nikkocitta, amo zan niktemiki, ka ye onimitznottili, mistzinko onitlacis, 'I am not dreaming, not fantasising; for I have seen you, I have looked upon you.
~ Nicholas Ostler
Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.
~ Nicholas Sparks
When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
~ Nicholas Sparks
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.
~ Nicholas Sparks