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Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade. -- LZ Granderson
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. -- Bob Dylan
The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition. -- Nicole Krauss
I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process. -- Kevin Garnett
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings. -- J. Cole
I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me. -- George Brett
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
I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.' -- Mark Feuerstein
The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job -- John Frankenheimer
Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get. -- Kevin Hart
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get. -- Rick Springfield
The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. -- Cory Doctorow
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure. -- Gregory Benford
Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks. -- Rachel Maddow
If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. -- Michael Jordan
The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade. -- Adam Grant
We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades. -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself. -- Fergie
Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period. -- Randy Houser
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
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
Accolades and attaboys oftentimes separate leaders from real world issues.Leaders are as susceptible to the things followers tell them, same as the gullible follower who buys into the leader who speaks a better game than they ever played!~ -- Bobby Compton
It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS. -- Bruce Davison
When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering." -- Bob Sutton
The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job. -- John Frankenheimer
I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades. -- Chad Channing
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. -- Jonathan Sacks
I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it. -- Troy Brown
This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal. -- R. A. Salvatore
I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants. -- Joel Robuchon
To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records. -- Jakob Dylan
I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine. -- Kenny G
Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades. -- Jimmy Johnson
I met Roger Ebert at an independent-film awards or something. And he said, 'When I saw you just now, I wanted to punch you in the face. And then I had to remember you're an actor. So, congratulations!' Those are my accolades. -- Leo Fitzpatrick
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
I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing. -- Shia LaBeouf
I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely. -- Alan Arkin
You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back. -- Geddy Lee
It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame. -- Idina Menzel
I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So I'm really thankful for my family and for the support system that I have for being the person that I am today. I'm proud of who I am. -- Keke Palmer
In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades. -- Willie McCovey
I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon. -- Michio Kaku
Ian Ashby is very underrated and it's right he gets the accolades he gets -- Paul Merson
While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. -- Andrew Thomas
I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions. -- Mark Kozelek
It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil? -- Mas Oyama
What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied. -- Tony Dungy
My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful. -- Malgorzata Szumowska
For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice. -- Steve Maraboli
Life isn't about the final destination or the accomplishments and accolades; it's about the journey and the opportunities for learning"?and how we grow as a result. -- Michael Eisen
All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair. -- Emmy Rossum
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
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

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