Achievement Award Quotes

#1. 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.

Argus Hamilton

#2. 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?

Michael Palin

#3. I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple

#4. I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

Steven Spielberg

#5. I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.

Donald O'Connor

#6. 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.

Terry Rossio

#7. It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

Randy Bachman

#8. Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

Amy Carmichael

#9. Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Suzy Kassem

#10. I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Elmore Leonard

#11. A question is a polite way of demanding something.

Edward De Bono

#12. When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.

Zicheng Hong

#13. The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Elizabeth Drew

#14. 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.

Jerry Pinkney

#15. The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

Simon Spurr

#16. 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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#17. 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.

Rod Serling