Top 312 Prizes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.
I think one nice thing about mathematics is that we don't really have one prize that dominates all the others, like the Nobel prizes.
Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
Now, I'm ahead of my father. He got other prizes... But he did not get a Nobel Prize.
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of science. That's the reward, really.
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.
I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.
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.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.
With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers.
I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.
It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.
I've won fair-play prizes, but that's just my nature, my character. This is who I am, and I do not feel the need to hide the real me.
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts.
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the way the world operates.
I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].
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.
All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
