Prize Quotes
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The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
Gertrude B. Elion -
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
Marcel Proust
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
Barbara Brown Taylor -
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
William Shakespeare -
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato -
You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
Norm MacDonald -
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.
Lord Byron -
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.
William Congreve
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The prize of all too precious you.
William Shakespeare -
Insight is the booby prize of life.
David H. Levy -
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
Jonathan Mayhew -
I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things.
Richard Feynman -
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
Subcomandante Marcos -
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
Norman Mailer
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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.
William Gibson -
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
Hedy Lamarr -
... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
Erich Maria Remarque -
Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
Jonathan Raymond -
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.
William Feather -
I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.
Erro
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Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.
Erin Andrews -
How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.
Audrey Hepburn -
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
Simon Kuznets -
For a foreman, heat-treat seems like a very small kingdom, not much of a prize. There is nothing intrinsically attractive about running that operation, and having only two people to manage makes it seem like no big deal. To prevent it from seeming like a demotion to them, I make a point to go down there periodically on each of the shifts. In talking to the foreman, I drop some rather direct hints that the rewards will be great for anyone who can improve the output of heat-treated parts.
Eliyahu Goldratt