Prize Quotes - Page 36

• We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

  Vince Lombardi

  Hero, Character, Men

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.35, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Gold, East, Riches

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Universe

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

  Norman Jewison

  Winning, Film

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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• The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winning, Eras, Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Determination, Fatherhood, Desire

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• There are no prizes for average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Average, Performances

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• I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Kids, Eye, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

  George Wells Beadle

  Science, Winning, Dna

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• The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.

  Heinz Fischer

  Egypt, People, Earth

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• It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

  Murong Xuecun

  Criminals, Calling, Difficult

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• I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Change, Integrity, Thinking

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

  Alexander Pope

  Change, Past, Path

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• People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Mean, Years

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• Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

  Lennart Nilsson

  News, Today, Technique

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• Buy Space Ghost cereal, but don't eat the prizes.

  Matt Groening

  Cereal, Space, Ghost

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• 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Sweet, Dark, Awards

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• Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Running, Jobs, Simple

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• As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

  Abbi Glines

  Eye, Acceptance, My Best Friend

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.33, Abbi Glines

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• Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.

  Hendrik Tennekes

  Dream, Nobel, Mishaps

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• A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

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• We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and how to speak to one another, that our kids don't know that achievement, there's no way in the world that could be good for us.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teaching, Kids, Achievement

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.

  Sarah Jio

  Beautiful, Jobs, Hate

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• Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.

  Nicole Haislett

  Success, Block, Challenges

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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