Quotes About Lifetime Achievement

#1. I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

James Taylor

#2. 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

#3. Meeting Stevie Wonder was a massive, lifetime achievement for me. He's one of the sweetest people. I sense a kindred spirit in him, and I hope he'd say the same. Actually, he did.

Hunter Hayes

#4. To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

Gustav Ejstes

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

Donald O'Connor

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

Steven Spielberg

#7. I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

Michael Caine

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

Shirley Temple

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Robert Plant

#12. 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.

Joyce Carol Oates

#13. I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

Jake Ellenberger

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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.

Francis Ford Coppola

#18. I still think 'The Lord of the Rings' is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn't wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.

Christopher Lee

#19. My fear drives me. My faith directs me. I am an entrepreneur.

Farshad Asl

#20. He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It would take him a lifetime to appreciate what an achievement that was.

Richard Flanagan

#21. Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown

#22. By losing present time, we lose all time.

William Gurney Benham

#23. Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

Pierce Brosnan

#24. Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Bob Saget

#25. I think also what's interesting is that Maggie [Gyllenhaal] knows how much the choices that I make reflect what's going on in my life. Admittedly, probably, as my sister, and as someone who loves me - like, she can't wait to see become a father.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#26. No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

Rachel Brosnahan

#27. Music is an experience. It's alive. Untamable. You can try to plan it out, pin it down, and bend it to your will, but it can't really be done.

Caisey Quinn

#28. You don't need a minute. I can educate you in seconds flat. I'm a man. Not only am I man, but a gay man. Not a chick, not some delicate girl you can seduce. A fucking man!" I pointed to the hallway. "Class dismissed.

S.J.D. Peterson

#29. The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go; but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#30. I figure if I just stay true to myself and I am the Whitney that I've always been, people will look at me not as Whitney from the show, but as a human being.

Whitney Port

#31. Faced with a choice of stepping up or stepping it down, we are going to step it down.

Bill McDermott

#32. Your sadness doesn't make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open. Completely alive.

Panache Desai

#33. I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

Farooq Abdullah