Michael Caine Quotes
I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
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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.
Salman Rushdie
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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.
Adam Clayton U2
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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.
Naveen Jain
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Sam Simon
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Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
Dale T. Mortensen
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To be the most successful male from 'The X Factor' is a big achievement, and I'm chuffed with that.
Olly Murs
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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.
Idris Elba
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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.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Lata Mangeshkar
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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.
Benjamin Graham
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I think every athlete wants to get sponsored. If you do really well in your sport, then I think sponsorship can help you get rewarded in that sense: doing what you can for your sponsor. It's just another achievement in life.
Bianca Walkden
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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.
James S. Coleman
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Max Euwe
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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.
Mark Zupan
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The Olympics are very important only if you gain a medal, and that's a very difficult achievement.
Dominic Thiem
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Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.
Gene Spafford
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Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement.
Elliot W. Eisner
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Nam petere imperium quod inanest nec datur umquam, atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem,hoc est adverso nixantem trudere montesaxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursumvolvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi.
Lucretius
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If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.
Napoleon Hill
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I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.
Michael Caine