Quotes about Prizes

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews. Votes: 3

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. Votes: 3

There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design. Votes: 3

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus. Votes: 3

All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. Votes: 3

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. Votes: 3

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919. Votes: 3

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. Votes: 3

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity. Votes: 3

That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high. Votes: 3

Prizes do not mean anything to me. I think it is more important to make a child aware of the existence of a weird creature like a water spider that breathes through its backside. Votes: 3

Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time. Votes: 3

Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion. Votes: 3

The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes... Votes: 3

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ...Literature" Votes: 3

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. Votes: 3

After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion's share of Nobel Prizes. Votes: 3

I don't value prizes of any sort. Votes: 1

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. Votes: 1

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. Votes: 1

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. Votes: 1

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed. Votes: 1

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Votes: 1

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone. Votes: 1

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part. Votes: 1

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items. Votes: 1

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. Votes: 1

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. Votes: 1

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought. Votes: 1

I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things. Votes: 1

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life. Votes: 1

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. Votes: 1

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence. Votes: 1

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. Votes: 1

Parts win prizes, not actors. Votes: 0

Those who act receive the prizes. Votes: 0

There are no prizes for defying yourself. Votes: 0

There are no prizes for average performance. Votes: 0

There is something so arbitrary about prizes. Votes: 0

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. Votes: 0

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important. Votes: 0

Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps. Votes: 0

Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes. Votes: 0

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life. Votes: 0

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers. Votes: 0

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise. Votes: 0

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes. Votes: 0

...but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity. Votes: 0

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. Votes: 0

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought. Votes: 0

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. Votes: 0

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. Votes: 0

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks Votes: 0

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing Votes: 0

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Votes: 0

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films. Votes: 0

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes. Votes: 0

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted. Votes: 0

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. Votes: 0

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious. Votes: 0

I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery. Votes: 0

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords. Votes: 0

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. Votes: 0

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. Votes: 0

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. Votes: 0

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future. Votes: 0

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table. Votes: 0

Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. Votes: 0

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. Votes: 0

I never get bored, because there's always different puzzles, I'm wearing different clothes, there's different contestants, there's different prizes. Votes: 0

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. Votes: 0

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done. Votes: 0

For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers. Votes: 0

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. Votes: 0

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress. Votes: 0

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. Votes: 0

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought. Votes: 0

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid. Votes: 0

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. Votes: 0

George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick prizes would fall out of him. Votes: 0

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. Votes: 0

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one. Votes: 0

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win. Votes: 0

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake. Votes: 0

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life. Votes: 0

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. Votes: 0

As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good. Votes: 0

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. Votes: 0

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. Votes: 0

I’m an insomniac lately. It’s one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], Votes: 0

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real. Votes: 0

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one. Votes: 0

With all those prizes the most interesting thing is getting on to the shortlist, because that tells you who people see as your peers. Votes: 0

the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work. Votes: 0

Business people get many undeserved prizes - golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don't think people should get rewarded for screwing up. Votes: 0

The politicians are no prizes, but the people are even worse, they're so ill-informed. I never understand the pushback when I say people are stupid. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York. Votes: 0

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point. Votes: 0

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good. Votes: 0

A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way. Votes: 0

I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes. Votes: 0

Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Votes: 0

While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard, Votes: 0

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due. Votes: 0

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. Votes: 0

I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit." Votes: 0

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program. Votes: 0

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn. Votes: 0

Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb. Votes: 0

Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature. Votes: 0

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy. Votes: 0

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet. Votes: 0

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature. Votes: 0