Quotes About Prize

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

Life is the ultimate adventure, and Death, the prize that awaits us all.

I don't believe I can let this subject pass by leaving my own conflicted emotions unconfessed. When Carl Sagan won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1978, I dismissed it as a minor achievement for a scientist, scarcely worth listing. When I won the same prize the following year, it wondrously became a major literary award of which scientists should take special note.

From celebrities to all dimensions of subjects, each one of those wishes, desires, and expects, to qualify the Nobel Prize, which carries opulence charming, and fame. However, such ones, fail to realize that, it is just a Nobel Prize, not Noble Prize.

Now the Nobel Prize should be the Nobel Surprise. I do not draw any other meaning than as the label to degrading of yourself prize

I became disenchanted. My first impression, that of finding myself part of a fearless battle, passed. The trepidation at every exam and the joy of passing it with the highest marks had faded. Gone was the pleasure of re-educating my voice, my gestures, my way of dressing and walking, as if I were competing for the prize of best disguise, the mask worn so well that it was almost a face.

When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it!

Being intelligent in a private organization full of sycophant people as indolent only is not a prize but punishment merely to that person.

The prize to a wise man from an invisible God is his regular seclusion & safe, long distance from woman; whereas the punishment to the wicked person from omnipresent Lord is a horde of people especially women around him often.

There is an invisible power who is peeping in everyone's mind all the time to make all people first find and get exactly whatever they dream or desire or demand and then HE decides based on HIS own judgement as what each person actually deserves in terms of prize or punishment in life.

The junkbird attracts the attention of its prospective mate by opening wide a tail-fan of feathers spelling out, 'You have already won a prize.

If someone said to me you can get five million quid, a world title, fight at Wembley with a fight that every fan wants to see, it's a no-brainer for me.

I don't know where my first gold medal is.

The revolution made Napoleon possible: that is its justification. For the sake of a similar prize one would have to desire the anarchical collapse of our entire civilisation.

I tremendously value wins.

I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.

My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

The citation for the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry reads, 'for contribution to the knowledge of electronic structures and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals,' and therefore implies that the Prize has been awarded for a long series of studies extending practically over my whole scientific life.