#recognition

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#building #happens #i #i love #just

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#consent #gain #greatness #must #often

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

#because #constitution #constitutional #law #must

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#only #pattern #proper #recognition #science

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#appearances #day #even #every #every day

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 our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#creator #guidance #identity #inner-self #knowledge

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased ↗

— ArLeaBelle

#happiness-positive-outlook #humor #inspirational #pleasure-of-recognition #pleasures-of-life

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. ↗

— John Bardeen

#general #giving #individuals #involved #nobel

I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#brooke shields #ever #face #friend #hung