#recognize

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#important moments #late #life #moments #really

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#children #different #each #effect #even

It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#continue #fans #forward #how #like

I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that's recognized. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#confirmed #getting #help #i #i think

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#compliments #i #lot #me #people

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield. ↗

— Susan Davis

#battlefield #landscape #modern #modern warfare #must

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#biased #hearing #material #own #reading

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#becoming #court #ends #first #first time