Quotes About Acknowledgment

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't like. It's about self-acceptance, number one, and it's also about accepting our creation.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.

As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.

Sunrise smiled to himself at hearing Sweetlard try out that Malazan way of talking. 'Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too. A bit of 'yes' and a bit of 'well, fuck' and maybe some 'we're all in this mess together'. So, a word to sum up the Malazans. He uttered his own sigh and settled his head back. 'Aye,' he said.

Once he asked a colleague if he had ever heard of a musician named Carlos San-tain-a; Brin had been asked to introduce him at a concert. "Sergey," the Googler said, "everyone knows who Carlos Santana is." "I'll just say he needs no introduction," said Brin.)

But ignoring something doesn't make it less real, y'know. Something isn't fiction just because you choose not to acknowledge it.

The real difference between Aristarchus and today's astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.

You are unbelievable at times." "Many people have thought so," Shem answered dryly, "but despite unbelief, I still exist.

Your name works wonders in Little Moor, Barbara. It's like a free pass.

The world seemed to change before my eyes. All the huts looked empty and sad, the dampness stung like acid. I think I knew then, in that brief instant, that my destiny had been set. Already the land around me had acknowledged my farewell.

The clues were there all along, but we'd denied our past and shut ourselves away from the truth.

He is an effete hedonist, with pretensions to power. He has far too little self-control to ever have it. He is a great one for foot-stamping, and always has been. Mother has indulged him, of course, which hasn't helped. He is the gilded one, the pretty one. Our father barely acknowledges his existence.

he recognized that particular look.

He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said. Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.

I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren't patting me on the back anymore, sayin', 'Good job on the sobriety! Go get 'em!'

There were instances when I felt cheated because my feeling of social service was neither acknowledged or reciprocated by the second party. It is with growing age and experience that I realised, I was doing it for myself and not for others. Hence, I found my happiness and satisfaction in it.

I remember what it felt like when I was young, and I looked up to someone, and they would pay me just an ounce of attention. And some of the bands I listened to when I was young probably never even sold any albums, but it didn't matter to me. If I'd go up and say, 'Great show,' it would be amazing that they even would acknowledge me.

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.