The purpose of your life is the purpose you bring to it choice by choice and recognition by recognition.

I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west—there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world.

The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.(from The structure of desire and recognition)

So, I believe that what you are looking for, really looking for, is that one person who is capable of recognizing you no matter what. You know, that one person who is going to be...

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself...

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error....

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only...

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

People need appreciation from more persons than they need love from one person.

Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science.

Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of...

Don’t do something for recognition, Do it out of kindness, do it because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete.

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

What’s the point of being the first to arrive? Nobody is there to witness your commitment.

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Perception can be one-sided or variant: “Glass half empty or half full.” There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.

Don’t do something for recognition. Do it out of kindness. Do it because out of giving, it will make you whole and complete.

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had...

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

A trophy isn’t about the hardware, the gold-painted statue mounted on marble, it’s about the recognition of excellence. A trophy is a physical representation of the abstract concepts of hard work and dedication. And that’s...

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

For me, it’s not about winning an award. It’s also about not even being nominated.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she...

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can […] be closed with a shout of recognition.

To treat everyone equally is offensive, because it fails to recognize anyone as an individual.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

Hero’ is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive.

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one’s own hands, nor one’s step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

I don’t ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

No-one ever built a statue of a critic.

The system we have built refuses to recognize people. Only credit cards are recognized. Drivers’ licenses are recognized. But not people. People haven’t any use for faces anymore, it seems. They are busy looking at...

You’d kill yourself for recognitionkill yourself to never, ever stopYou broke another mirroryou’re turning into something you are not.

I was honored at the awards ceremony. I didn’t get any recognition, but I was honored to be there. (Tickets were cheaper than I imagined!)

A sense of mission lostin ink’sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn’t recognize at first.

Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have.

I have a recognition dance, to acknowledge that I heard and understood you. So when Savannah says she loves me, and I reply by doing the Charleston, I’m just trying to show my love for...

Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other.

Ukarimu ni bora kuliko hekima, na kulitambua hilo ndiyo mwanzo wa hekima.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By “we” I mean adults. We’re adults, right? But emotionally we’re a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you...

Awards and recognition are not the purpose of life and not the goal of an activist. The heart of an activist usually redonates the money, or uses the accolades as a foot in the door...

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse...

It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.