Quotes About Acknowledgment

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.

There you go; seems to me you're right!

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

High, low, overhand, he rained down steel upon her. Left, right, backslash, swinging so hard that sparks flew when the swords came together, upswing, sideslash, overhand, always attacking, moving into her, step and slide, strike and step, step and strike, hacking, slashing, faster, faster, faster . . .until, breathless, he stepped back and let the point of the sword fall to the ground, giving her a moment of respite. "Not half bad," he acknowledged. "For a wench.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

The woman looked at Gawain silently for a moment, then nodded. "The greatest adventures begin simply," she said.

Who are you?" [Bryce] asked in a hoarse whisper "Nathaniel Gorham." The man waited, expectantly, then his face fell. "You don't recognize it?" Bryce could do no more than shake his head. "Figures. If I'd said George Washington or Benjamin Franklin then you would have perked up. But Nathaniel Gorham? No... My name's right there next to theirs... At the bottom of the Constitution. Big as life, just like Ben's and General Washington's.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.

What you praise you increase.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.

Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.

Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating."

Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.