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Acclaim Quotes

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Albert Einstein
“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
Albert Einstein

Frank McCourt
“You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.”
Frank McCourt, Teacher Man

Isaac Asimov
“The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. ”
Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

Thomas Bernhard
“Nothing but disaster follows from applause.”
Thomas Bernhard

Chuck Palahniuk
“Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name and to love her. There, she'd admitted it aloud. But she couldn't do anything that would justify such massive public acclaim. She just needed a mentor, a teacher, someone to discover her.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Beautiful You

Sun Tzu
“To triumph in battle and be universally acclaimed 'Expert' is not the acme of skill, for to lift an autumn down requires no great strength; to distinguish between the sun and moon is no test of vision; to hear the thunderclap is no indication of acute hearing.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Sol Luckman
“Imagine a piece of spaghetti that looks edible but that never ends once you start sucking it in—that’s fame in a nutshell.”
Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer