Quotes with recognition

  • I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
  • I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
  • People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Cary Grant Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.
    Cary Grant
    English-born American actor (1904 - 1986)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Paul J. Meyer Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Simone Weil Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Alice Hamilton Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Jean Rostand Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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  • Billie Jean King I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Al Pacino I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Ben Carson If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Scott O'Grady It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion - these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.
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  • Theodore I. Rubin Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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  • George Santayana Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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