Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Of course awards matter.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Applause waits on success.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

My reputation precedes me now.

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.