“All the things that Hillary Clinton has changed. OK, she used to be strong at the border. Now everyone could stay. She used to have a crime bill; "sorry about that." She used to be for welfare reform. That was a big mistake. "Libya wasn't my job; it's Barack Obama's." The TPP was the - was the gold standard for trade deals. "I hate the TPP." So she changed on everything. What is she voting for, who are you voting for? What are we doing here? She's going to win it just on recognition.” HateWinningStrongMistakeCrimeChangedGoldI HateTradeClintonSorryRecognitionBarackWelfareVotingBig Mistake Author:Brian Kilmeade
“US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. International human rights law now looks at not whether or not the tribes have formal ownership or legal title in a Western legal conception might have it, but rather they look at the tribe's historical connection to that land.” PastTermHistoricalWesternHuman RightsRecognitionOwnershipIndigenousIndigenous People Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about to killing or torture. It's to humiliate. So the oppressed feel degraded. And both the oppressed understand and the oppressors understand. It's constant.” KindRacismProfoundKillingRecognitionTortureOppressedHumiliate Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that my relationship with Ralph Lauren has given me a lot of recognition; the photo is everywhere. You open a magazine and there's a photo of me in a fragrance ad. I think that brought me recognition and made me be able to talk more about the sport of polo. I think it has done a lot of great things for the sport.” ThinkingDoneSportsGreat ThingsRecognitionFragrance Author:Nacho Figueras
“Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking responsibility for other individuals, recognition that no democracy works if they're weaklings.” IndividualChallengesResponsibilityDemocracyRecognitionTaking Responsibility Author:Condoleezza Rice
“If you are a Christian, you can still practice Stoicism and think of the Logos as the Word of God. If you are a secular person, an agnostic or an atheist, you may treat the Logos as "Einstein's god," that is the factual recognition that the cosmos is ordered according to rational principles, without which science itself wouldn't be possible.” ThinkingChristianAtheistRationalRecognitionWord Of GodSecularAgnosticStoicismFactual Author:Massimo Pigliucci
“My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years for Rolls Royce in England. He taught me the value of working someplace where you can make a difference - not chasing money but doing work that you found purposeful.” ValuesParentGoalMoralDadMy DadRecognitionMaking A DifferenceBossCompassMoral CompassYou Can Make A Difference Author:Adrian Gostick
“Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who are like-minded or even strangers that are like-minded. Sending your music to established artists or labels or magazine, I mean there is something to be said for tenacity, for trying to pursue recognition that way, but it just doesn't make sense for the best work. And if you do make an amazing work, it's sometimes not the best way to be heard. You have to get on a sacred space, like a stage, and do your testifying that way.” PeopleTryingMeanRealSometimesArtistStrangerRecognitionMake SenseTenacity Author:Jeff Buckley
“The world has never known the freedom and liberty it did until the United States some 230 years ago - and if that light is extinguished, then it's over for the resolute world as well. There's nowhere else. That has been a tenet of American foreign policy from the beginning, the recognition of liberty and freedom as essential to the human condition as created by God.” WorldLibertyPolicyRecognitionHuman ConditionForeign Policy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.” OpportunityAttentionTechnologyComputerThreatRecognition Author:Bill Gates
“You might meet a guy who turns out to be the best guy you've worked with. They don't have to be some name brand person. I've met a lot of lower level actors and directors who were terrific; that are as good as any other A level director or actor, they just don't get the recognition. So I'm happy working with anybody who wants to show up to play the game and has a clue.” GuyRecognitionBeing The BestClue Author:Bruce Campbell
“I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.” PeopleThinkingDifferentAgeModernRecognition Author:Ben Domenech
“Michael Jackson is an underappreciated songwriter and an underappreciated singer. I think the world only gives him the most recognition for his dancing. He was an awesome singer and an amazing songwriter.” ThinkingWorldGivingDancingRecognition Author:Siedah Garrett
“You think about the Pledge of Allegiance, "liberty and justice for all." This is at the core of the American creed. The creation of the Legal Services Corporation was a recognition that low-income people have trouble being able to afford a lawyer.” PeopleThinkingJusticeLibertyTroubleCreationLawyerRecognitionPledgePledge Of Allegiance Author:Martha Minow
“Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable. Robots are bad at pattern recognition and certainly at common sense. That's why computers can beat humans in chess but can't have even a basic conversation with a six-year-old.” CommonComputerCapableChessCommon SenseRecognitionPredictable Author:Michio Kaku
“Language and emotions are too easily misread. For example, laughing can mean many things: laughing with you or at you. Does that laugh reflect joy, anger, or that s/he's about to fire you? Too many jobs require complex feelings, pattern recognition, common sense, and the human touch.” MeanFeelingsJoyLanguageCommonEmotionLaughingCommon SenseRecognition Author:Michio Kaku
“With more exposure comes more recognition. I can honestly say I wouldn't have gotten a lot of things had no one seen me on "Top Chef", win or not. It cast a very wide net for me. And fortunately in a great way. I love that I have been able to cook side by side with so many of my idols.” WinningHonestlyRecognitionChef Author:Kristen Kish
“I do not think Syria can achieve international recognition in the future - even if they work through a successful political process, you know, the international community simply is not going to accept a Syria led by the Assad regime.” ThinkingPoliticalCommunityAcceptingSuccessfulAchieveRecognitionSyria Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they know that I'll take care of them. And I've been proud of their support and their recognition of my service to the veterans.” CareSupportProudTake CareRecognitionVeteran Author:John McCain
“Jessica Tandy. Nice company! And Ruth Gordon. They worked all along. She didn't really get any big star recognition until Driving Miss Daisy. So what if it takes me that long? Slow and steady wins the race, right? Better a tortoise than a hare.” LongWinningNiceMissingDrivingRecognitionWhat IfSteadyDaisies Author:Beth Grant
“You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.” ThinkingDifferentEatingIllnessMental IllnessRecognitionEating Disorder Author:Troian Bellisario
“We have self-assessment tools, computer-based tools to see how we are performing mentally in outer space and there's some also very interesting technology and work that's being funded by NRSBI to look at facial recognition to look at your patterns to see if you're experiencing stress or fatigue. It's a kind of thing that I think will gain acceptance with gradually. But it probably has more to immediate application in things like homeland security, and looking at facial recognition of people going through airports and things like that to see who's under stress.” PeopleThinkingKindInterestingTechnologySecurityAcceptanceStressRecognitionPerformingApplicationVery InterestingFatigueOuter Space Author:Leroy Chiao
“I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.” PersonalitySocial MediaSellingRecognitionBother Author:Francois Arnaud
“The ways in which management can express appreciation for an employee's contribution are without end; the key is to act in ways that communicate Thanks! That was a great job! We can really count on you! It's great having you here! While some people love having plaques to hang on their personal Wall of Fame and they adore being acknowledged at a formal Recognition Banquet and some people are only interested in money, I find the most effective forms of recognition are personal and either spontaneous or very close in time to a significant accomplishment.” PeopleWallFameManagementCommunicateAppreciationSignificantThanksRecognitionAccomplishmentSpontaneousAdoreGreat Job Author:Judith M Bardwick
“I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.” PeopleThinkingDesireSpecialAmbitionRecognitionExcitement Author:James Wolcott
“I did one interview with the Atlantic. It was very interesting; I could write an entire book on that one experience. I've never had any type of public persona outside of the face recognition I have with this job, so I was really ill prepared to have this conversation. I think the real story was that it became a source for a flurry of other derivative stories. I remember the Post headline said "Marcarelli's Bizarre Life," which to me is code for gay, primarily.” ThinkingWritingBookRealRememberInterestingGayIllRecognitionCodeBizarreVery InterestingPersona Author:Paul Marcarelli
“I think recognition outside of Japan is amazing. I don't feel like that kind of thing would ever happen to me, as I'm not like those kinds of designers - I don't want to express myself in such a categorized way. I kind of want to be in the middle of the majority and the minority. I don't really want people to know what I am.” PeopleThinkingKindRecognitionDesigner Author:Hiroshi Fujiwara
“A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for it, money from it, or if it's a cathartic experience to do it, whatever their motivation that is valid for them. That's the artist's motivator.” BelieveMotivationEnergyDrivenRecognitionTime And Energy Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I'm really sensitive to the beginning of a motif or a phrase or something that's kind of the backbone or becomes kind of the spine that you grow muscle tissue onto. You know from that, if you have that good beginning, it's like everything that grows off it often has potential. Maybe I'm good at that early bit of recognition of pieces of potential. I'm not sure.” KindRecognitionSensitiveNot SureBackbone Author:Tim Hecker
“Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.” LanguageMemoriesFashionRecognition Author:Michael Erard
“Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been the key point of recognition for an artist, the museum today is just another place to experiment and work, like we can do in any art fair. The king or queen of the moment is completely ignored and replaced by the new one a few years later. Contemporary novelty in art disappears faster than the seasonable changes of the fashion designs.” ArtDifferentMomentsTodayArtistFashionDesignStrangeSpeedDisappearRecognitionReplacedIgnored Author:Daniel Buren
“I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd say I wrote poetry; I wouldn't go further. I was in my mid- to late-thirties before I felt that I was a poet, which I think meant that I had begun to embody my poems in some way. I wasn't just a writer of them. Hard to say what, as a poet, my place in the world is. Some place probably between recognition and neglect.” PeopleThinkingWorldPoetSevenRecognitionNeglect Author:Stephen Dunn
“As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader will find something of it when the work is complete. But I do try to figure out where in their experiences certain characters of mine, who are not necessarily readers, and certainly not writers or artists, find an equivalent sensation: of delight, of astonishment, of whatever it is that briefly - and brevity seems essential - reassures us, connects us, sends a shiver of inarticulate recognition down our spines: Oh, yes: life.” TryingCharacterArtistBusyRecognitionWorriedToo BusyBrevityShiver Author:Alice McDermott
“North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we never forget that North Korea was named as part of the "axis of evil" a year before the United States invaded Iraq. Do you think we would be stupid enough to believe American promises after all this? We are a nuclear power. That is not negotiable. We are willing to talk about limits freezes - but we would need to be given something in return security, in the form of diplomatic recognition by Washington and guarantees of nonaggression from China, Japan and the United States.” ThinkingGivingBelieveEnoughEvilForgetSecurityStupidPromiseGiving UpRecognitionNever ForgetNever Giving UpNorth KoreaDiplomaticNuclear Power Author:Kim Jong-un
“A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and photographs and sculpture and all the rest of that. I also spend a lot of time looking at the people on my street, and all of it simply exists in sort of this tremendous forceful wash of reality out of which comes, what I hope, are these shapely recognitions of reality, which are my poems.” PeopleRealityPhotographRecognition Author:W. S. Di Piero
“There's more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable fuels have economic value as well as obvious value for our health and our well-being and our survival. In fact, as you know, the economic revolution in renewable fuels has been impressive. It really had not been anticipated.” ValuesEconomyEconomicDangerousRevolutionSurvivalObviousRecognitionImpressive Author:Robert Jay Lifton
“Business schools do most things very well. They are just not comprehensive and what they miss are things like culture and creativity and a certain kind of pattern recognition that comes easily to people trained in the liberal arts.” PeopleKindArtSchoolCultureCreativityMissingRecognitionLiberal Arts Author:Grant David McCracken
“It is my duty to say: Something has to change. I say that very directly, in clear words so that nobody can misunderstand me. And I believe in our new initiative for continuing education and vocational training. For French people who are socially disadvantaged, this means real recognition and support.” PeopleBelieveMeanRealI BelieveSupportDutyTrainingRecognitionInitiative Author:Emmanuel Macron
“I opened with Edward Kienholz's The Beanery, and that's such a controversial piece that I think that brought people right away. It was a room-size work that one walked into. It was a bar with Kienholz-type figures sitting and drinking and talking - all life-size characters in a life-size setting. The exhibition was covered in Time, Newsweek, and Life, so it had huge recognition right away.” PeopleThinkingCharacterDrinkingRecognitionControversial Author:Virginia Dwan
“The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries: There is no Kurdish state. But that shouldn't prevent the Kurds from continuing to develop their own institutions. Still, the best thing for them would be to remain a part of Iraq, but in return we must treat them with respect - their nationality, their language and their culture.” CultureLanguageAchieveRecognitionDelivery Author:Ahmed Chalabi
“Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?” TryingIdentityExcitingRecognitionUpset Author:Maggie Nelson
“My success was the shock of recognition, probably, rather than the quality of the work. I mean, the quality may have been fine, but there's a lot of fine work out there. It was the fact that I was doing something that at that time, nobody else was doing, except for say, Mort Saul out in San Francisco on The Hungry Eye, and "Second City" was emerging out in Chicago. Nothing in print. It was basically happening in cabaret and nothing in fiction. And certainly nothing in New York in cartoons.” MeanEyeQualityWork OutHungryRecognitionPrintCartoonEmergingCabaret Author:Jules Feiffer
“Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.” PeopleProblemTodayJoySpiritualityConflictCarefulRecognitionMaturityBe CarefulJoy Of LifeGetting High Author:Sean Penn
“There is a difficult transition in management from being the knowledgeable expert and the problem solver to becoming a process architect. The importance of good process in organizations is undervalued and people seldom get credited for putting good processes in place. It makes sense therefore that C-level executives don't want to delegate expertise and problem solving tasks which help them to "shine" and attract widespread recognition.” PeopleHelpingProblemDifficultImportanceManagementShiningRecognitionMake SenseArchitectProblem SolvingExpertiseKnowledgeable Author:Yves Doz
“I think there's responsibility both at the federal and provincial levels for education in a grander sense - and that is to provide recognition financially to people who are educators, to help provide access to on-the-spot learning, so kids are not biased against science. Especially when people are younger, their curiosity needs never to be beaten down. And you can only do that if you have people who love the subject they're teaching, and who provide the student with the ability to do it in the field.” PeopleThinkingHelpingKidsAbilityResponsibilityTeachingStudentsCuriosityRecognitionEducatorBiased Author:Roberta Bondar
“When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling.” PeopleImportantDifferentTermEmotionGuiltRecognitionInnocenceSoftwareStereotype Author:Nicole Miller
“I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.” PeopleWritingTryingFunAbilityFailingEgoRecognitionCriticizeLongevity Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition. I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it. But what am I willing to do for that? I struggle with that a little bit. I try to be accommodating, but I'm pretty much a loner. I'll say this, and it'll sound like bullshit, but it's not: I don't really pay attention to this stuff very much.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingBookSometimesAttentionStruggleNiceRecognitionPay AttentionFrustratedBullshitGood BookLoner Author:Paul Beatty
“The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership are divided. And there is an enormous gap between Israelis and Palestinians. To say that this decision is only recognizing reality, that Jerusalem is the actual capital of Israel - well, that's true. But it's a selective recognition of reality.” ReasonRealityDecisionProgressRecognitionPalestinianIsraeli Author:Richard N. Haass
“Wal-Mart, with its legendary focus on customer value in terms of price, is innovating in sustainability. Now, we're beginning to see the mirror image, a convergence, as the not-for-profit sector is beginning to serve more effectively by applying private sector accountability and efficiencies to social needs. This reflects a rising recognition that to serve others best requires more than good intentions; it mandates a focus on real-world results. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among the most conspicuous advocates and representatives of this transformation.” ValuesTermFocusTransformationIntentionRecognitionAccountabilityGatesSustainabilityEfficiencyGood IntentionsLegendaryBuffettWarren BuffetMirror Image Author:James M Strock