Quotes About Achievement

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.

It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

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

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

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

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 probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

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 have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone's first film - like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.

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.

In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn't necessarily have to earn the cash prize.

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.