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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble.

  Stuart Wilde

  People, Giving, Focus

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.148, Hay House, Inc

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• The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Leadership, Acceptance, Intelligent

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• That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Virginia, Battle

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Butterfly, Thinking

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

  George Sand

  Sacrifice, Mind, Earth

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• You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim.

  James Franco

  Dream, Acceptance, Successful

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• I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.

  Moby

  Years, People, Unhappy

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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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• 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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