Prizes Quotes

155 quotes by 141 authors

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with… — John Banville
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. — Jacob Bronowski
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.… — Drew Carey
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… — Billy Childish
The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how… — Og Mandino
Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won… — Dustin Hoffman
A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought. — Stephen Hawking
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age… — Gerald Early
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most,… — Dante Alighieri
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. — Brian Tracy
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is… — Alexander Morozevich
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… — Douglass North
I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We… — Vladimir Putin
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be… — Samuel Johnson
The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time… — Rick Strassman
All the worldâ€™s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. — Richard Dawkins
I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real. — Bill Nighy
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up… — Miles Davis
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl… — Erich Fromm

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