Moira Kelly Quotes

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

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• Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Going
  • Everybody
  • Surprises

• Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Need
  • Recognition

• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Fantasy

• The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Power
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Long
  • May
  • Beginning

• I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Surprises
  • Soon

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.

  

  Plato
  • Place
  • Recognition
  • Begins

• We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Desire
  • Better
  • Individual

• The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Philosophy
  • Opinions
  • Recognition

• A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Letter
  • Surprises
  • Reserve

• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Different
  • Understanding
  • Dignity

• When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Good
  • Recognition

• The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Goal
  • Victory
  • Satisfaction

• Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Evil
  • Recognition
  • Improving

• Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mood
  • Recognition
  • Toleration

• The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Sin
  • Salvation
  • Recognition

• I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

  

  Josh Trank
  • Creativity
  • Rules
  • Surprises

• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Identity
  • Achievement
  • Recognition

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

  

  Dana Burnet
  • Rather
  • Miles
  • Pedigree

• I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

  

  Moira Kelly
  • Recognition
  • Surprises