Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It’s sad. – Grace Slick
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. – Helen Mirren
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald’s or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in. – Gene Siskel
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you’re enjoying it. – George C. Scott
It’s changed from one-hit wonder to ‘Greg Rutherford wins events.’ That’s what I’ve always wanted, that level of recognition. – Greg Rutherford
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind. – Gary L. Francione
Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs. – Hilary Mantel
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there’s no longer the merchandising aspect. – Grant Morrison
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. – Henry James
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we’re passing one another without a look of recognition. – Henry Miller
Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. – Jim Carrey
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through ‘voiceprints,’ akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers. – Alex Berenson
In the best writers, the outward-reaching interest in the ‘found subject’ leads back at a hairpin to some uncomfortable inner recognition that the writer has journeyed very far to see; he comes home half-dead. – Amity Gaige
The recognition factor is so much higher when I’m a redhead, so when I’m a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily. – Cynthia Nixon
A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I’m not quite ready for that super part yet, and I’m afraid that by the time I am, I’m going to be too old anyway. – Christine Teigen
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds. – Austin Clarke
Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. – Adam Schiff
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It’s been very rewarding. I’m not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I’m getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go. – Adam West
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it’s a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties. – Alan Rickman
Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that’s a need of the human condition – to look for affection or recognition or validation. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
