Recognition Quotes - Page 19

• Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

  Bill Maher

  Three, Elements, Comedy

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.

  Steven Pressfield

  Powerful, Intelligent, Enemy

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.50, Black Irish Books

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• The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?

  Don Feder

  Running, War, Dirty

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• Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

  Douglas Coupland

  Character, Creative, Patterns

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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

  Errors, Metaphor, Possibility

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• Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

  Jason Silva

  Creativity, Ideas, Patterns

  "On Creativity, Marijuana and 'a Butterfly Effect in Thought'" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

  Ryan Lewis

  Artist, Typical, Movement

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• There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Moral Development, Civilization

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• All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

  Michael Gurian

  Men, Tools, World

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• 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

  Years, John D Rockefeller, Genius

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• The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Writing, Inward, Looks

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• The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

  Confucius

  Men, Office, Mind

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• Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.

  Kin Hubbard

  People, Folks

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• Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Truth, Pain

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• I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Religious, Ideas

  "On Liberty". Philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, 1859.

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• Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Blood, Practice

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• Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fate, Medicine, Flying

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• The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they often should. I think we still look to authority figures for validation, recognition, permission.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Validation, Needs

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

  Emily Yoffe

  Men, Choices, Adults

  "This Holiday Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us". Interview with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Mean, Tolerance

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• In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Sunshine, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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• When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Character, Mean, Quality

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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• In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Civilization, Judgment

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3772, e-artnow

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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