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Quotes About Acknowledgment

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.
~ Steven Pressfield
You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive.
~ Jim Sheeler
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
~ Joss Whedon
If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.
~ Pam Brown
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?
~ C. S. Lewis
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
~ Philip Sidney
Nash was respected but not well liked.
~ Sylvia Nasar
Members of the ruling class are unwilling to admit themselves mistaken.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.
~ T.D. McKinney
According to Hegel, the slave fully acknowledges the self-consciousness of the master and she dissolves herself or upholds herself as their relationship dictates and evolves to the struggle unto death. Although this struggle is a failure, according to Hegel, if someone actually dies.
~ Tamara Faith Berger
Your irritation is important to us," Cassie droned, looking at me upside down with her head tipped backwards over her headrest, "and will be exacerbated in rotation. Thank you for holding.
~ Tana French
You know something?" Frank said, after a moment. "You've got a bad habit of taking too much credit for the stuff other people do around you.
~ Tana French
A brief act of noticing the disturbing thoughts and feelings, just an acknowledgment, like an inner nod—rather than a mental conversation with them—can sometimes suffice.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Offering companionship in pain acknowledges that suffering is living through all of us, and in our togetherness we enlarge the heartspace that can hold it with compassion.
~ Tara Brach
What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants my attention right now?" or, "What is asking for acceptance?
~ Tara Brach
Kid Chaos : "Yes, ma'am".
~ Tara Janzen
All he could think of was how all people require attention. All people require respect. All people require acknowledgment. All people require love.
~ Tavis Smiley
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
~ Tecumseh
And I think I've found the real benefit of digital memory. The point is not to prove you were right; the point is to admit you were wrong.
~ Ted Chiang
She sees that Derek has a very different idea of high expectations than she has. More than that, she realizes that his is actually the better one. "You're right," she says, after a pause.
~ Ted Chiang
Is it more respectful to treat him like a human being, or to accept that he isn't one?
~ Ted Chiang
I knew for certain that being accorded a biography isn't dependent on one's species or one's fame.
~ Ted Kerasote
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
~ John Hodgman
We're not perfect, and there are some dark patches in our past, but what makes us special is that we recognize these evils, we come to grips with them, and we fix them.
~ Dianne Feinstein