Words matter. These are the best Prizes Quotes from famous people such as Terence Tao, Lando Norris, Ann Aguirre, Caterina Fake, Arjen Robben, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.
The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.
Do not seek prizes that aren’t worth getting.
Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.
It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.
After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for ‘Keeper,’ and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
The best novel I wrote was one called ‘Crusoe’s Daughter,’ which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I’m not sure I have in any of the others.
Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted ‘prizes’ for participation in fundraisers – books and other neat promo items.
What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
There’s a reason ‘The Price Is Right’ is on in every country in the world. It’s simple, and people want to know the price of things. Plus we give away brilliant prizes.
Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren’t really very important.
The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.
If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.
I received many prizes of course before the Nobel Prize and this is probably the last prize I get. But I felt when I see the patient and saying they were saved by the therapy we developed, that is the most moving, and also the time I feel my life has some meaning.
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck – both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
The McLaren prizes can only help me in my quest to ultimately reach Formula One.
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion’s share of Nobel Prizes.
I grew up in an age where women’s tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men’s game.
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I’ve purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
You don’t want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.
Parts win prizes, not actors.
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
I did not like prizes at school. I didn’t like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don’t like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.
It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, ‘Do whatever you want, as long as you’re the best at it.’
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
Six years, I didn’t act. Then I wrote myself a role – I won prizes all over the world.
Ambition is a funny thing. In cricket, as in many professions, it tends to take you on a journey away from where you started. That’s fine, maybe inevitable. But no one ever tells you that the biggest days aren’t always the best days. And the richest prizes aren’t the ones you remember.
I don’t make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
It’s as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn’t a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There’s been lots more like him, and it’s a shame they don’t get Nobel Prizes.
Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren’t really very important.
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel’s faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
I did not like prizes at school. I didn’t like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don’t like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
I didn’t do my work for money or prizes – only for the excitement of discovery.
If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.
Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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’ve been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn’t sell any books.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.
I grew up in an age where women’s tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men’s game.
Why Galatasaray and not Liverpool? Because I am a winner – I play for prizes – so I went to Galatasaray because I thought that I would win more at Galatasaray and be champion than at Liverpool, and I think afterwards that I made the right choice.
My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were ‘for attendance,’ so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
I’ve won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I’m delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.
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.
Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.
I can say without hesitation that there is certainly no greater show to be a contestant on than ‘Price’ – the prizes can be huge, and the whole world loves and watches the show. It’s an American institution!
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones – competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that’s worthwhile – they never do.
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel’s faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college, won some prizes. When I came out of school, I had many horrible jobs, but I didn’t know what the path was to a creative life or the life of a writer.
I love doing ‘The Price is Right.’ It’s so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it’s not my money. It’s really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.
In the winter of 1940, ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college’s top essay and poetry prizes, to write about ‘the meaning of young liberalism for the present age.’
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
The effect of prizes on one’s career – if that is what to call it – is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one’s writing, however, is nil – otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
I’m not sure about prizes. I don’t know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a ‘National Poetry Day,’ like a ‘No Smoking Day,’ is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.
I didn’t do my work for money or prizes – only for the excitement of discovery.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That’s no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it’s changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
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.
Since retiring from competitive chess, my focus is on education and organising children’s tournaments: I make a point of never separating girls and boys, nor awarding special prizes for girls.
I don’t make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
I was excited to be nominated for the Grammy, but prizes are a little strange.
When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called ‘Pop It,’ where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It’s a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I’m stressed.
When I was a kid, I remember seeing Michael Jackson. I thought he was an alien. You don’t grow up to be like Michael Jackson. I’m not saying I’m Michael Jackson, but Mercury Prizes are for aliens, basically. So I was very chuffed that I got nominated, and then I won.
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
Parts win prizes, not actors.
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
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.
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we’ve managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
For me, football is not about money – I want to win prizes.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
As a player, you always want to win prizes.
My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were ‘for attendance,’ so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck – both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
I’ve also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it’s amazing how it concentrates their minds.
I’ve always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I’d always return home with a handful of prizes.
Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.
You want to win all games, which means you want to win all cups and all prizes.
I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don’t try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know.
My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of science. That’s the reward, really.
I’m not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it’s nice to be nominated.
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
If you don’t make the best-seller list, if you don’t get shortlisted for any prizes, it’s goodbye.
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don’t believe in prizes much.
The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.
It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That’s no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it’s changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it’s much harder work than big donations, but I think it’s a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.
I believe we can do more in making the President’s vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
There’s a reason ‘The Price Is Right’ is on in every country in the world. It’s simple, and people want to know the price of things. Plus we give away brilliant prizes.
I’m not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
I want to win Nobel Peace Prizes, as many Grammys as I can, Emmys, Golden Globes, VMAs, everything.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It’s billions to tens of billions.
Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don’t think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
I’ve also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it’s amazing how it concentrates their minds.
It’s as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn’t a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There’s been lots more like him, and it’s a shame they don’t get Nobel Prizes.
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
I received many prizes of course before the Nobel Prize and this is probably the last prize I get. But I felt when I see the patient and saying they were saved by the therapy we developed, that is the most moving, and also the time I feel my life has some meaning.
I’ve always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I’d always return home with a handful of prizes.
Business people get many undeserved prizes – golden parachutes and bonuses even when companies fail. I don’t think people should get rewarded for screwing up.
I was never much of a one to win prizes… and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.
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 have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don’t think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren’t a bureaucracy yet… and they haven’t gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won’t. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.
When my editor sent me the first two images of Joker’s daughter, I was struck by how confident she looked despite her boney appearance and horribly scarred face. So I starting thinking, how did Duela gain such confidence in a world that prizes beauty?
When I was a kid, I remember seeing Michael Jackson. I thought he was an alien. You don’t grow up to be like Michael Jackson. I’m not saying I’m Michael Jackson, but Mercury Prizes are for aliens, basically. So I was very chuffed that I got nominated, and then I won.
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.
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we’ve managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
I haven’t won any prizes or had any best sellers.
