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Quotes About Acknowledgment

No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.
~ David D. Burns
A free man is free to acknowledge his fears, without hiding them, or hiding from them. Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
~ David Deida
Refusing to talk about something wouldn't make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.
~ David Eddings
I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?
~ David Foster Wallace
As everyone is well aware, it is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.
~ David Foster Wallace
You just never quite occurred out there, kid,' deLint apprises him.
~ David Foster Wallace
As everyone is well aware, ti is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.
~ David Foster Wallace
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The poorest service is repaid with thanks.
~ William Shakespeare
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
~ William Shakespeare
Only I have left to say, 'More is thy due than more than all can pay'.
~ William Shakespeare
Respect is essentially a yes to others, not to their demands, but rather to their basic humanity. In this sense, respect is indivisible. When we give respect to others, we are honoring the very same humanity that exists in us. When we acknowledge the dignity of others, we are acknowledging our own dignity. We cannot truly respect others without respecting ourselves at the same time.
~ William Ury
She began the conversation with Tom by acknowledging his work and then focused on the problem at hand, sticking strictly to the facts:
~ William Ury
Your repetition can be intentional. You can use the same anchor phrase freshly each time, renewed by focusing on your underlying intention— the deeper Yes that lies within you. You can also humanize the repetition with a smile or acknowledgment.
~ William Ury
no one expected you to have. I trust he appreciates the
~ Winston Graham
For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.
~ Woody Allen
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
~ Yann Martel
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
~ Christopher Morley
The first step in overcoming any serious problem is acknowledging that there is a problem.
~ Unknown
Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
~ Chuck Klosterman
A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.
~ Unknown
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
~ Cicero
These are the kinds of regrets all women have, mistakes and missteps, paths not chosen, opportunities gone. Youth gone. Forever. And until I honestly acknowledge how this regret feels, acknowledge that I'm not okay with how some of my life went, it's like having a fake past, and a fake present, which is surely a prescription for a fake future.
~ Claire Fontaine
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.
~ Unknown