Quotes About Recognition

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

My long-range mission is to be the first athlete to win the Nobel Prize.

It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.

If I win the Mercury Prize, I'll be very honoured. If I don't win it, I won't have lost it. Someone else will have won it. And that will also be good.

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.

I was never, in my whole school career, given a job as a monitor, a form captain, or a prefect. I never won any kind of prize.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.

I'm very happy that Kathryn Bigelow has become the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers.

Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.

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

Do not seek prizes that aren't worth getting.

If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

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

I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for the individual.

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.

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

I don't value prizes of any sort.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.