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• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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• I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don't need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.

  Nick Cannon

  Mean, People, Waiting

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• Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets

  Paul Merson

  Underrated

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• What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something.

  Josh Lucas

  Journey, What Matters, Keys

  "Josh Lucas on American Psycho, Russell Crowe, and the disastrous Poseidon set". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. August 27, 2015.

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• On the field accolades are great, but in order to reach your full potential, you have to overstep the boundaries of football and go out into the community and be an All-Pro there too.

  Derrick Thomas

  Football, Order, Community

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• Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments.

  Deepak Chopra

  Jobs, New Relationship, Accomplishment

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• There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Years, Generous Man

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• Powerful, emotionally charged and worthy of every accolade the film industry has to offer. OCTOBER BABY will change you ... just open your heart.

  Judie Brown

  Baby, Powerful, Heart

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• To be honest, when you're younger and cooler, you say those sort of things don't mean anything, but then on the day when they pat you on the back and they say, "Look, mate, we're noticing what you're doing-thanks very much;' you think of the people who spent a life in the cinema and didn't receive that kind of accolade, and it's sort of a humbling experience. And it's very nice and all that. But it doesn't change the way I do things.

  Russell Crowe

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Heath in GQ, March 2005.

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• Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.

  Keith Devlin

  Gratitude, Jobs, Goal

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• don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.

  Frank Lowy

  Jobs, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.

  Ester Dean

  Song, Real, Music Industry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.

  Reince Priebus

  Jobs, Humble, Accomplishment

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• The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Jobs, Team, Guy

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• The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.

  Neil Cross

  Men, Fake, Way

  "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

  Martial

  Life, Dying, Puff

  Martial, John Patrick Sullivan (1987). “Epigrams of Martial Englished by Divers Hands”, p.301, Univ of California Press

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• He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

  Lester Hayes

  Unique, Data, Nfl

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• I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

  Clarence Clemons

  Names, Agendas, Way

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• It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

  Mas Oyama

  Achievement, Tears, Toil

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• Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Music, Angel, People

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• Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

  Marva Collins

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• I will never do nudity. I don't care how dark and intellectual the role could be, you know...I don't care if I frickin' could get an Oscar for it, I'm not going to do it. Those accolades mean nothing to me. I don't think people deserve to see what's under my clothing. That's only for my next husband-ha-ha-ha.

  Jessica Simpson

  Husband, Mean, Dark

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

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• I have the best of both worlds. I have all the accolades that come with something like that video, but I don't have people stopping me on the street and being like, "Oh, my God, dance for me." I have probably only been recognized three or four times flat out - someone saying, "Are you the Evolution of Dance guy?"

  Judson Laipply

  People, Guy, Video

  "Beat goes on for YouTube's 'Evolution of Dance' star". Interview with Ryan Osborn and Allison Berger, www.today.com. January 12, 2009.

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• Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

  E. Lockhart

  Impact, Rejection, Appreciated

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.213, Hot Key Books

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• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  Paul McCartney

  Voice, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.wbur.org

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