Recognition Quotes - Page 3

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

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

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

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

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

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

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.

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

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.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

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.

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

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.

Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

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

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

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

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.

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.