Recognition Quotations | Page 2

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

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.

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.

Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are all already looking directly at Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the necessary cognition, but not the recognition.

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.

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.

I think of myself as unconventional. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected - despite wanting to get some recognition through performing - but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

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

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

Never expect any recognition here--the system prohibits it. The cross is not affixed to the genius, no, the genius is affixed to the cross.

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.

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.

If you talk about change but don't change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

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

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.

If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of fame or fortune or recognition, they laid a platform of good, solid work and became better and better.

I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.

It is good to be God, yeah. It's nice to get the recognition that I've been working so hard for.

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.

If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

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.

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.

True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society

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.

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

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

My reputation has grown slowly.

It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Sometimes, you're going to have to work hard, sometimes extra hard, and sometimes you still won't get that recognition. That's life. That's the way it is. But if you keep working, eventually you'll get the prize you're seeking.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

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

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

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.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

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.

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.