Recognition Quotes

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It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the… — Francis Fukuyama
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities,… — Eckhart Tolle
But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish. — Raymond E. Feist
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its… — Anne Rice
Donâ€™t expect to get anything back, donâ€™t expect recognition for your efforts, donâ€™t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood.… — Paulo Coelho
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of oneâ€™s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,… — Allen Ginsberg
Maybe itâ€™s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition… — Michael Cunningham
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… — Karl Barth
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. — Susan Sontag
It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence. — Dejan Stojanovic
Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility. — Steven Erikson
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were… — William Gaddis
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I donâ€™t know. Likewise, I donâ€™t know why I go on living, most… — M. John Harrison
A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results. — Simon Sinek
Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot… — Ayn Rand
Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now… — Virginia Woolf
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling… — John Steinbeck
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. — Alexander Lowen
Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools. — Cecelia Ahern
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines… — Richard J. Foster

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