Quotes about Recognition

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

No sooner does a woman show that she has genius or effective talent, than she receives the tribute of being moderately praised and severely criticised.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

There have been some terrific player's names being bandied around that I am being compared to and that is great. I am just able, touch wood, to take it in my stride. That's how I am. I am not embarrassed or pressurised by it. It is just great and I want to do as well as they did.

When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground.

My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.