Not Recognised Quotes

#1. Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Ellen Key

#2. To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

John Berger

#3. I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

Roddy Doyle

#4. I'm not recognised much at all.

Laura Carmichael

#5. Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore.

Saif Ali Khan

#6. Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

Walter Benjamin

#7. Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

Gautama Buddha

#8. The brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

Gunter Grass

#10. My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily ... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

Colin Firth

#11. Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

Vidal Sassoon

#12. My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#13. If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#14. She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."

Lucinda Creighton

#15. I'm a private person, but I don't feel afraid to walk out of my door or anything. I get recognised occasionally, but not overwhelmingly so.

Paul Dano

#16. The Japanese high command recognised the sexual needs of the men and provided for them. As a consequence, rape was not frequent.

Lee Kuan Yew

#17. In the rotation of crops there was a recognised season for wild oats; but they were not to be sown more than once.

Edith Wharton

#18. Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

Jane Smiley

#19. Each and every artist must embody these two qualities, truth and beauty. Not beauty in the sense recognised by the public at large, but from the point of view of aesthetics as understood by the artist himself.

Karim Raslan

#20. I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

Hannah Murray

#21. The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognised before.

Friedrich Hayek

#22. The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#23. Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient,

Pierre Cardin

#24. Just ticking boxes is not the ultimate goal here. Embracing a culture of teamwork and discipline is. And if we recognised the opportunity, the two-minute WHO checklist is just a start.

Atul Gawande

#25. It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

#26. To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

Leonardo DiCaprio

#27. Despite my involvement in difficult and sometimes controversial questions I have received consistent support from the people of Ashfield. They have recognised that it is necessary to take difficult decisions, that newspapers do not always report fairly or accurately.

Geoff Hoon

#28. In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

Laura Carmichael

#29. Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.

Paulo Coelho

#30. I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

Emilie De Ravin

#31. The Greek philosopher Epictetus recognised this two thousand years ago when he wrote: 'What disturbs and alarms man are not the things but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Robert Harris

#32. Recognition without money will not get you recognised.

Habeeb Akande

#33. I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

Joan Allen

#34. This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Marilynne Robinson

#35. I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general.

Graeme Simsion

#36. May not now, may not today' may not tomorrow either. But one day your every ounce of effort will be recognised and rewarded

Sarvesh Jain

#37. We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

#38. I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am.

Katie Melua

#39. It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

Sharon Stone

#40. I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#41. People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.

Karni Liddell

#42. I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

Harry Connick Jr.

#43. Damen had half expected a gaudy parade costume, but Laurent had always defined himself against the opulence of the court. And he did not need gilt to be recognised under a parade standard, only the uncovered bright of his hair.

C.S. Pacat

#44. It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

Chord Overstreet

#45. The Christians made mental phenomena into independent beings, their own feelings into qualities of things, the passions which governed them into powers which governed the world, in short, predicates of their own nature, whether recognised as such or not, into independent, subjective existences.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#46. Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.

Usain Bolt

#47. Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

Jahangir Khan

#48. One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

Benedict Cumberbatch