A Quote by Neil Peart

But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

Neil Peart

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Compromises Endless Illusion Integrity Prizes Shatter

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Neil Peart
Canadian - Musician
September 12, 1952 - January 7, 2020

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Dennis Prager

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

F. E. Smith

I was a shy kid so my parents sent me to Anna Scher's theatre school. That's how I got my first proper role aged ten in the BBC show 'The Glittering Prizes.'

Martin Kemp

Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.

Liam Cunningham

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.

Tahir Shah

Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.

Bryce Courtenay

Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.

Frederick Lenz

As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.

Wayne Dyer

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

Paul Sweezy

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

Rachel Cusk

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

Don Edward Beck

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

Craig Venter

I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.