quotes about Recognition
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
-- Ada LeversonSource : Ada Leverson (1951). “The limit”
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
-- Adam PhillipsSource : Adam Phillips (2005). “Going sane”, Egully.com
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But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
-- Agatha Christie -
In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.
-- Alan Cohen -
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
-- Alan WattsSource : Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage
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No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
-- Alexander Lowen -
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy
-- Ali Khamenei -
Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.
-- Allan Bloom -
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
-- Allen Ginsberg -
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The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
-- Amy LowellSource : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media
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The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
-- Ayn Rand -
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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
-- Ayn Rand -
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
-- Ayn Rand -
What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition...
-- Barbara Kruger -
Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.
-- Bill Maher -
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When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
-- Billy Graham -
If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
-- Bob Goff -
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
-- Bob Ross -
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
-- Boris SidisSource : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 275), 1922.
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Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.
-- Brian Behlendorf -
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
-- C. F. Powell -
The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
-- Carol Haney -
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
-- Cary Grant -
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In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
-- Chuck Close -
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare...
-- Clement Greenberg -
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Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating.
-- Clement Greenberg -
Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.
-- Colleen HanabusaSource : "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.
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I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.
-- Craig Johnston -
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
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Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.
-- Darynda Jones -
I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.
-- David Coulthard -
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
-- David Galenson -
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
-- Deborah Tannen -
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I think it's great when writers get recognition; it doesn't happen very often. I just don't want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.
-- Diablo Cody -
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
-- Doris LessingSource : "The Golden Notebook". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1962.
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The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.
-- Dwyane Wade -
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
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To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.
-- Faith PopcornSource : Faith Popcorn (2001). “EVEolution: Understanding Women - 8 Essential Truths That Work In Your Business & Life”, p.12, BookBaby
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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
-- Franz Liszt -
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
-- Franz Liszt -
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
-- Friedrich EngelsSource : Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.326, Cambridge University Press
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Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals.
-- Gary L. Francione -
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
-- George C. Scott -
Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.
-- George F. Kennan -
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.
-- George Santayana -
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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
-- George Santayana -
It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.
-- Gilbert Arenas -
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.
-- Gilbert SimondonSource : "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects". Book by Gilbert Simondon, University of Western Ontario, June 1980.
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God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.
-- Gloria Gaither -
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I see something - some conjunction of forms - which dominates all others. There is a sudden recognition that in what I have been looking at there is contained a unique series of rhythms... A shiver down the spine arrives to prove the validity of such an encounter.
-- Graham Sutherland -
Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed .
-- Grigori PerelmanSource : "Manifold Destiny". Interview with Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
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You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
-- Hanan AshrawiSource : "Rabin legacy casts long shadow over Barak, peace process" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. November 3, 1999.
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No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.
-- Harold Rosenberg -
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The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.
-- Helen SchucmanSource : Helen Schucman (2008). “Course in Miracles: Includes Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers) (H)”, p.154, Course in Miracles Society
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Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.
-- Henry Edward ManningSource : Henry Edward Manning (1874). “Sin and Its Consequences”, p.256
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
-- Herbert Spencer -
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Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.
-- Horatius BonarSource : Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com
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Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.
-- Irshad Manji -
Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.
-- Irving Langmuir -
The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
-- Jack McDevitt -
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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
-- James G. FrazerSource : "Complexity and the Arrow of Time". Book by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, and Michael Ruse, p. 243, 2013.
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This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
-- James Henry BreastedSource : James Henry Breasted (1933). “The Oriental Institute”
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Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.
-- James Van Allen -
Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.
-- Jan EgelandSource : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
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We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
-- Jay Hernandez -
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
-- Jean Rostand -
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
-- Jerome Bruner -
Thankfulness to God is a recognition that God in His goodness and faithfulness has provided for us and cared for us, both physically and spiritually. It is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.
-- Jerry Bridges -
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Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
-- Jim Carrey -
Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.
-- Jim ClemmerSource : Jim Clemmer, Barry Sheehy (1992). “Firing on All Cylinders”, p.229, Jim Clemmer
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I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.
-- Joel Meyerowitz -
Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.
-- John M. Perkins -
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I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.
-- John Steinbeck -
Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
-- Joseph BarberaSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.
-- Josephine Baker -
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.
-- Judith Butler -
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
-- Judith Rodin -
The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.
-- Juho Kusti Paasikivi -
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We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.
-- Julian BagginiSource : " What good luck to miss out on a £64m lottery win" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.
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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
-- Karl Barth -
As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
-- Karl Barth -
The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.
-- Keith Johnstone -
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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
-- Kendrick Lamar -
We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.
-- Kevin RuddSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.
-- Kin Hubbard -
I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.
-- Kyle ChandlerSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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