Quotation Explorer - 'Acknowledging'

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them. - Samuel Butler
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power. - Jason Mraz
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). - Friedrich Nietzsche
By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything. - Graham Speechley
Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it.And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part. - Seth Godin
What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it? - Sontag, Susan
One can overcome fear by acknowledging it and then choosing not to heed it." - L. R. W. Lee, Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee
Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said. - Jean M. Auel
Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback. - Gordana Biernat
Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures. - Gugu Mona
Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger. - ketan r shah
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. - Sylvia Plath
[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness. - William Deresiewicz
Vaccination was, and is, thoroughly infused with our politics, our social values, and our cultural norms. By acknowledging and understanding the divergent reasons why we've vaccinated in the past, however, we just may ensure the continued success of vaccination in the future. - Elena Conis
By acknowledging spirit with gratitude, you bring it joy and give it more strength to do its work. - Russell Eric Dobda
It’s not the application that is stopping people from using timeless knowledge passed on to us, it’s the acknowledging part. - Daya Kudari
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