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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• 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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• Acclaim is a distraction.

  James Broughton

  Madness, Distraction

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

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

  Michael Jackson

  Awards, Rewards, I Can

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.18, Random House

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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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• 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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• Many of the people I'm gratified to see have gotten acclaim like Mark Turner or Bill Charlap. Ed Simon or Maria Schneider or Jim McNeely or Scott Robinson. Ken Peplowski, who is a friend and somebody I admire a lot.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Bills, Mark

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• The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.

  Grant Teaff

  Football, School, Loss

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• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

  Eric Butterworth

  Artist, Boys, Silver Platter

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• The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Triumph, Analysis, Movement

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• It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

  Steve Almond

  Emotional, Journey, Self

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• A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Thinking, Fire

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard as quotes in "The Point of View" by Robert L. Perkins, (p. 241), 2010.

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• Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Book, Substance, Originality

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• If I had not been a Shadowhunter, I would have had a future on the stage. I have no doubt I would have been greeted with acclaim.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doubt, Shadowhunters, Stage

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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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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