What is preliminary talent award?

Famous quotes containing the words preliminary, talent and/or award:

    Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
    Paul Tillich (1886–1965)

    The best friend will probably get the best spouse, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves (1895–1985)