Prize Quotes
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The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
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I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
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I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.
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Parts win prizes, not actors.
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Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
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Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi
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There are no prizes for average performance.
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O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
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Lithuania, my country! You are as good health; How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you...
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We like the gift when we the giver prize.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
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The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
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Benoit should get one adult first prize $41,000 and a Mercedes sedan if she wins, plus one child's portion $20,500 and a stroller.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?
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Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
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In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
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You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
