What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

No sane man will dance.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

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

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

Man, all lives matter.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

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?‘

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

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

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

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

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.