Quotes About Acknowledgment

Nothing could appear, the word "appearance" would make no sense, if recipients of appearances did not exist—living creatures able to acknowledge, recognize, and react to—in flight or desire, approval or disapproval, blame or praise—what is not merely there but appears to them and is meant for their perception.

Toda virtud comienza con el cumplido que se le hace, mediante el cual se expresa la satisfacción por ella.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

People wonder what we do for our women. I will tell you what we do: we get out of their way and look with wonder at what they are accomplishing.

Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

Expressing yourself when he takes you for granted doesn't work.

Many people, women especially, she had observed, responded to a compliment by explaining what they had—or hadn't done—to merit it.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

This is..." "You completely forgot what day it is, didn't you?" "Eh?" "It's your birthday!!" "Huh... It is? Oh!" "Idiot!

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Often we forget to acknowledge the brilliant minds around us, in the process of impressing the small minds.

Whenever people wonder "What is the truth?" usually it is because the truth is just under their noses—but it would be very inconvenient to acknowledge it.