Recognition Quotes

• There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Appreciation, Money, Sex

  "The Greatest Management Principle in the World". Book by Michael LeBoeuf, p. 97, 1985.

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• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Beginnings: A New Perspective: Life Is Not about the Beginning Or the Ending. It is about the Present Moment" by Catherine Zeeb, Xlibris Corporation, (p. 94), May 12, 2010.

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• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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  Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

  Alexander Smith

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174

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• We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Achievement, Wish

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.76, Lulu.com

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Giving, Defeat, Possibility

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• Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

  Margaret Cousins

  Change, Thanksgiving, Thank You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

  Ken Blanchard

  Congratulations, People, Soul

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• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
  well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, Appreciation, Team Building

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• Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Appreciation, Rewards And Recognition

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 13

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• Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Fans, Comedy

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• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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• I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.

  Bill Reid

  Art, Unique, Thinking

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• There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Differences, Attention, Bigs

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• Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Avid, Self

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• When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!

  Selima Hill

  Rushing, People, Scary

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• 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

  Artist, Curator, Great Art

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• As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.

  Iain Sinclair

  Mean, Demand, Want

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• There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Magazines, Regions

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• Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Needs, World

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

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• One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Tortoises, Hares

  Clement Greenberg (1961). “Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations”

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• I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Years, World

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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

  Artist, Composer, Performing

  Clement Greenberg (1961). “Hofmann: twelve color plates, twenty-one black and white illustrations”

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