Quotes About Awards And Recognition

#1. I was reminded of our history lessons, in which we learned about the loot or bounty an army enjoys when a battle is won. I began to see the awards and recognition just like that. They were little jewels without much meaning. I needed to concentrate on winning the war.

Malala Yousafzai

#2. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

John Bardeen

#3. You might be a redneck if the richest member of your family bought a house and you have to help take the wheels off of it.

Jeff Foxworthy

#4. To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

Jermain Defoe

#5. I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

John Wells

#6. If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.

David Hieatt

#7. My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

Ezra Koenig

#8. But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.

Graham Greene

#9. If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Mark Rogerson

#10. What the fuck, Dexter," Deborah said accusingly, as if it were my fault the two blood types were different. "I'm sorry," I said, not at all sure what I was apologizing for, but quite certain from her tone of voice that I should.

Jeff Lindsay

#11. The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Julie Dillon

#12. I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people's stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with me, I want to honor that.

John Darnielle

#13. If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Henry A. Kissinger

#14. I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

William Petersen

#15. I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

Luther Campbell

#16. The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is always Anonymous.

David Marusek

#17. When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.

Robin Lopez

#18. It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Christopher Bailey

#19. Since I was a kid, I've never found joy in living. I've always struggled just to feel okay. Everything was a fight against darkness.

Amber Portwood

#20. Everyone has Love towards some thing or other, and that Love is a spark of the Divine; everyone has ultimately to base his life on some one Truth; that Truth is God.

Sathya Sai Baba