Recognition Quotes - Page 40

• 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

  Art, Gains, Realizing

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Love Is, Long

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• Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Feel Better, Useless Life, People

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.17, Feral House

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• Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.

  Charles de Lint

  Lying, Moving, Our World

  "The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, 1991.

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• Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

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• She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mistake, Skills, People

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.37, Knopf

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• We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.

  Ilchi Lee

  Passion, Helping Others, Skills

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• I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Understanding, Enemy

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• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Depression, Roots, World

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Differences

  Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.24, Fulcrum Publishing

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• Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Motivation, Powerful

  John P. Kotter (1999). “John P. Kotter on what Leaders Really Do”, p.60, Harvard Business Press

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• I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Leadership, Encouragement, Appreciation

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• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Peace, Men, Practice

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• We add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall build a life with more justice.

  Francisco Toledo

  Respect, Struggle, Voice

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• One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy recognition it is usually found to have been anticipated, often with cogent reasons and in great detail.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Science, Discovery, Law

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• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Intelligent, Interesting

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

  Robert Kennedy

  Life, Children, Truth

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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• Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

  Gary Zukav

  Self Esteem, Loving Life, Attention

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2007). “The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

  Viola Spolin

  Air, Self, Views

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Wise, Spiritual

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• Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

  Thomas Dreier

  Adversity, Talking, Giving

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