Acclaim Quotes

• The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Forever, World

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.87, Bantam

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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Acclaim is a distraction.

  James Broughton

  Madness, Distraction

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Friendship, Confidence, Humble

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred Dupont Chandler, Louis Galambos (1978). “The papers: The chief of staff”

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• Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.

  Will Arnett

  Unique, Development, Way

  "Will Arnett: The TV Squad Interview". August 02, 2006.

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• A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Good Man

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• As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

  James Ellroy

  Giving, Interviews, Chance

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• We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only for the acclaim it's gotten but also because it showcases all the different kinds formats we use. So we compiled a database of all the variables of all the mass shootings in America - work the government doesn't do, thanks to the NRA - which allowed us to surface patterns and make data visualizations of it.

  Clara Jeffery

  Gun, Data, America

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

  Gerald Brenan

  Happy Life, Generosity, Giving

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.

  David Platt

  Dream, Believe, Home

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• Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Rights, Order

  Source: www.itv.com

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• The acclaim for Razorhurst means even more to me than usual because, let's be honest, Razorhurst is weird.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Mean, Usual, Honest

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.

  Charles Saatchi

  Artist, One Day, Sometimes

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• Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.

  Catherine Mayer

  Sexy, Motherhood, Age

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Nothing New, Knows

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.306, Routledge

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• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  Nat Wolff

  Thinking, Directors, Lucky

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.

  Waylon Jennings

  Song, Art, Dark

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• The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Long, Despair

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• The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.

  Medea Benjamin

  Zero, Dark, Squad

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

  Alexander Payne

  Two, Oscars, Helping

  Source: deadline.com

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• Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Writing

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Powerful, Land

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• As an actor you do look for a certain amount of critical acclaim and recognition from your peers and the industry at large. When that recognition comes to you, it's a special moment that you cherish and you always feel successful despite what the box office says.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Successful, Office, Special

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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