Recognition Quotes - Page 13

• I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.

  Kyle Chandler

  Too Much, Position

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Kind, Deserve

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Prayer, Unseen, Devotion

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• The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Teaching, Mind

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.322, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

  Julius Lester

  Writing, People, Stories

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• Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

  Randolph Bourne

  Mistake, Mean, Self

  Randolph Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

  Carl Bernstein

  Government, Safety, Levels

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• I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

  Steffi Graf

  Thinking, People, Knows

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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. Frazer

  Past, Ideas, Appearance

  "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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• I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

  Howard Gardner

  Luck, Degrees, World

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

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• The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.

  Julian Baggini

  Atheist, Feel Better, Giving

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that". www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Pain, Motivation, Animal

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2009.

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• I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

  Kathy Bates

  Life Changing, Years, Crafts

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• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Running, People

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• The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Idols, People, Goes On

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• I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

  Lee Child

  Book, Validation, Needs

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• Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

  Katherine Dunham

  Museums, Should Have, People

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• My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

  Troy Garity

  Mother, Cnn, Understanding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Kings, Understanding, Watches

  Peter Ackroyd (2005). “Shakespeare: The Biography”, Vintage

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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 Breasted

  Two, Events, Century

  James Henry Breasted (1933). “The Oriental Institute”

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• Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

  Takeru Kobayashi

  Athlete, Thinking, Japan

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• If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved to hear, you will hear again. The identity of the one you were near to on Earth remains the same, and instant recognition will be yours as you meet, never to part again. Your beloved one is only lost awhile.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Heart, Dear Ones, Voice

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• Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Thinking, Live Your Life

  Ayn Rand (1957). “Atlas Shrugged”

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• The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Firsts, Ethics

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• I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Book, Water Lily

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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