Michael Caine Quotes
I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
Quotes to Explore
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
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To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.
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I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
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In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
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Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
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I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.
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The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.
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Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels.
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All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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Listen, I could not possibly think of a form of mind control that it would take to convince me for any reason to drop what I do now to go and fight for someone's fight for geopolitical repositioning of energy resources...you know?
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
