Unrecognised Quotes

#1. They are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.

Paulo Coelho

#2. [Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

Pascal Mercier

#3. Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Peter York

#4. It was an occasion that undoubtedly did more credit to Mr. Deacon's social adroitness than to my own, because I was still young enough to be only dimly aware that there are moments when mutual acquaintance may be allowed more wisely to pass unrecognised.

Anthony Powell

#5. Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

Alastair Reynolds

#6. Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Archibald Hill

#7. The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

Mark Horton

#8. Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

Andrew Lang

#9. Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today.

Wangari Maathai

#10. Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

James Blunt

#11. I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Beck

#12. Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

Lee Hirsch

#14. I have been in love already, but I don't think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn't love you back.

Tom Kaulitz

#15. We are disclosing animals, wired for unburdening. It's what we do as a species. When I am being told, I listen, mindful of the honor, remembering all the while that the shore would be mistaken to believe that the waves lap up against him because he is so beautiful.

David Rakoff

#16. Truth is going with the flow of destiny, lies are an attempt to cover it up and fight against it.

Rebecca Hartman

#17. I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.

Rachel Vincent

#18. I'd taken it off and hurled it across the room, vowing never to touch it again. And I wouldn't have, if the damn thing hadn't gotten caught in my vacuum cleaner and destroyed it ... the vacuum cleaner, I mean. The ring was fine. Damn it.

Anonymous