Recognition Quotes

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

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

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

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

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

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

I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

The greatest reward lies in making the discovery; recognition can add little or nothing to that.

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.

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.

Recognition is the most inexpensive, easy-to-use motivational technique available to management.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

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

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.

We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.

The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

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.

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.

Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don't be afraid to move instinctually.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

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.

...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the esteem of others.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.