“Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.” LongStruggleAchievementHighestTitlesFallenAwardsLife Struggle Author:Taslima Nasrin
“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.” IndividualBusinessEconomyAchievementWarmChiefsCorporationsExecutivesAwardsGesturesSalaryChief Executives Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.” IfsWould BeMotherEasySawsAchievementAwardsComplacent Author:Lauryn Hill
“I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.” AchievementLifetimeAwardsAcademyLifetime Achievement Author:Donald O'Connor
“I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.” PeopleThinkingWayWantKindPersonsDoneAsksAchievementLifetimeProfoundAsk MeRememberedAwardsBrashLifetime Achievement Author:Bipasha Basu
“I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!” WantPiecesAdviceAchievementLifetimeAwardsOne PieceLifetime Achievement Author:Shirley Temple
“I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.” YearsEnoughWinningAchievementLifetimeAwardsLifetime Achievement Author:Steven Spielberg
“The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.” GivingYearsCountryNightSongNextCitiesGoneAchievementGunAnd LoveUniversalDrinkingLifetimeAwardsNext YearWednesdayBlakeLifetime AchievementBest CountryWednesday Nights Author:Argus Hamilton
“I think I'd rather win, for example, a Writer's Guild award than almost anything on earth. And the few nominations I've had with the guild, and the few awards I've had, represented to me a far more legitimate concrete achievement than anything.” ThinkingEarthWinningExampleAchievementAwardsConcreteNominationsGuilds Author:Rod Serling
“Well, it's pretty ironic to get an artist achievement award from the same foundation that disavowed one of my artistic achievements (that they had also earlier funded). It's a goddamn brainteaser. The Endowment had reinforced the worst bullying tactics of powerful lobbying groups and had created a less-secure environment for their own funded project to do its work in” WellsArtistPowerfulEnvironmentGroupsWorstAchievementProjectsFoundationSecureArtisticAwardsBullyingIronicTacticsEndowmentLobbying Author:Jon Rubin
“Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.” ChildrenArtMovingGoalTermMy OwnKingsAchievementLifetimeAwardsReceivingVirginiaHamiltonLauraWilderLifetime Achievement Author:Jerry Pinkney
“Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.” ArtAchievementRussiaAwardsSpheresHomosexualMedal Author:Vladimir Putin
“You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.” KnowsLongAchievementMessagesLifetimeAwardsLifetime Achievement Author:Michael J. Fox
“Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.” KnowsNeedsStillsBookMightSoundStrangeDegreesAchievementEncouragementLifetimeAwardsEncouragingHonoraryLifetime AchievementNeed Encouragement Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?” YearsFirstsWellsAchievementYears AgoLifetimeExcitedAwardsLifetime Achievement Author:Michael Palin
“It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.” KindLandAchievementLifetimeAwardsCrucialClicheDriftingLifetime Achievement Author:Robert Plant
“I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.” SometimesDiesAcceptingWonderAchievementLifetimeDecentAwardsLifetime Achievement Author:James Taylor
“The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.” BelieveWinningAchievementAppreciateKitchenAwardsWorthwhileWinning Awards Author:Julia Child
“[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.” PeopleFirstsFilmMotherNamesGivenAcceptingFourFineAchievementDaughterThirdsMiracleEncouragementConstantAffectionAppreciationCooksKitchenMy DaughterAwardsEditorsCollaborationFourthPermissionInstituteHitchcockAmerican Film Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.” PeopleSometimesStatesFieldsTruth IsGayNormalAchievementMusicianOrdinaryRelationVariousPrizeAwardsSyriaHomosexualGay RightsGreat MusicDecorationGreat MusicianTruth Be ToldTchaikovsky Author:Vladimir Putin
“It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the forever and sadly lost past. Avoid as long as you can the ultimate indignity: a lifetime achievement award.” LongSeemsPastLostForeverAchievementUltimateMovedLifetimeProofAwardsIndignityLifetime Achievement Author:Terry Rossio
“The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.” YoungAchievementLifetimeAwardsLifetime Achievement Author:Francis Ford Coppola