Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.
I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.
There was no luck. There was only preparation meets opportunity, and recognizing the latter and knowing when to seize it was ninety percent of any great success.
Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.
It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
You must know everything that God has forbidden you so as to be able to avoid it, for the one who does not recognize evil falls into it.
I tried so hard not to be compared, so I choose to be different and it came to the point that I don't even recognized myself.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.
President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
