Quotes About Achievement

I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.

I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!

For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy... delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.

That's what we play this game for; the opportunity to go win the ultimate prize.

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.

I've never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.