Recognising Quotes

#1. The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Frank Ocean

#2. Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.

Lisa Tenzin-Dolma

#3. I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

Hannah Kent

#4. We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping to find a way to solve this peacefully, but at the same time recognising that unless the threat of military force is there, Iraq will not disarm.

Colin Powell

#5. I was in those days all about the 'fuck you'. Fuck you for not recognising how great I am. I'll do it myself.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Robert Winston

#7. I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.

Julia Roberts

#8. I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

Gertrude Stein

#9. We have experienced an utter explosion in investigative techniques. Walk the streets, look at the cameras! They are now recognising people automatically from photos; we have DNA fingerprinting, infrascan photos that can identify you from the veins in your face.

Whitfield Diffie

#10. Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

Bertrand Russell

#11. You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

Sadie Jones

#12. I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine ... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

Matthew Nable

#13. The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn't mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.

Dalai Lama XIV

#15. As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Virat Kohli

#16. Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

Jay Woodman

#17. Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

William Faulkner

#18. There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Ian McKellen

#19. And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Vince Cable

#20. Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What

Alastair Reynolds

#21. If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world.

Theresa May

#23. The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

Scott Turow

#24. We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

Julie Bishop

#25. A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.

Oswald Chambers

#26. To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self.
By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

Adi Shankara

#27. I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Michael D. Higgins

#28. There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#29. We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#30. Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

Theresa May

#31. When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.

Jane Birkin

#32. There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#33. As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is a reality, but I won't deal with it in terms of recognising or admitting it.

Khaled Mashal

#34. The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

Quentin Bryce

#35. A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

Li Peng

#36. Difference thinking' is more than the ability to connect the dots, though. It's about seeing the truth, recognising the opportunity in that truth and then acting on it. You need to learn how to see the dots and understand the significance of connecting them before you can begin.

Bernadette Jiwa

#37. The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

Brian Molko

#38. In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#39. Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.

Jules Verne

#40. I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#41. I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Kailash Satyarthi

#42. For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

John Burnside

#43. We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

Kathryn Joyce

#44. Fate frequently places you in the right place at the right time. The problem is recognising when it has and doing something about it.

Jesamine James

#45. This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see it in children, in whom nature is more integral and less corrupted by convictions and prejudices, that the first faculty to emerge is that of seeing similarities.

John Eliot Gardiner

#46. We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Clive Bell

#47. I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Sebastian Pinera

#48. I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

Alan Green

#49. Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

Pallam Raju