Quotes about Recognition

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

I think Instagram made me more aware that there's actually people that care about what we do, and that we have fans. So that kind of showed me that maybe the people that follow me every day, and are commenting on my pictures, would want to wear the dress I've worn.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.