Quotes about Recognition
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.
— Margaret Atwood
Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.
— Margaret Atwood
I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or to be seen. I wonder if, in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood
Then I remembered something I'd seen and hadn't noticed, at the time. It wasn't the army. It was some other army.
— Margaret Atwood
What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?
— Margaret Atwood
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
— Margaret Atwood
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.
— John Maxwell
Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will be worthy to receive greater.
— Thomas a Kempis
Take it and be thankful.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.
— Thomas a Kempis
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
— Thomas Merton