A Quote by Edmund Phelps
I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.
No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks
Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.
To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
Finding your personal style is a rich journey of discovery, wonder, adventure, and excitement.
Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.
The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.
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