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Quotes About Acknowledgment

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
~ Confucius
The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability.
~ Confucius
lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.
~ Confucius
It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Qualunque cosa esista, disse. Qualunque cosa esista nella creazione senza che io la conosca esiste senza il mio consenso.
~ Cormac McCarthy
No son historias, Lengua de Brujo, es la pura verdad! ¿Es que ya no la reconoces cuando la ves? Cierto: es una chica fea y no es agradable mirarla a la cara.
~ Cornelia Funke
by the time the datapocalypse is obvious even to people whose paychecks depended on denying it, it would be too
~ Cory Doctorow
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.
~ Craig Ferguson
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will -- that is the part that's almost unbearable.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
That little, twitching, momentary clasp of acknowledgment that she gave him in her satisfaction, roused his pride unconquerable. They loved each other, and all was whole. She loved him, he had taken her, she was given to him. It was right. He was given to her, and they were one, complete.
~ D. H. Lawrence
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
~ D.H. Lawrence
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
~ D.H. Lawrence
If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.
~ Dale Carnegie
Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature;
~ Dale Carnegie
Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."*
~ Dale Carnegie
It is an interesting paradox that the more you surrender the credit for something you've done, the more memorable you become, and the more you actually end up receiving credit.
~ Dale Carnegie
Give honest and sincere appreciation.
~ Dale Carnegie
British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton
~ Dale Carnegie
John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
~ Dale Carnegie
Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you is very important. Nothing else is so flattering as that.
~ Dale Carnegie
Trate siempre de que la otra persona se sienta importante.
~ Dale Carnegie
We often take our spouses so much for granted that we never let them know we appreciate them.
~ Dale Carnegie