Prizes Quotes
155 Prizes quotes by 140 unique authors
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Grace comes immediately to meet some of those who strive, giving them assurance of the earnest of their inheritance (cf. Eph. 1:14), letting them taste…
— Gregory Palamas
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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…
— Nicole Haislett
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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…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go…
— Rajneesh
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[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that…
— John Dewey
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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
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No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks
— Don Edward Beck
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I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
— Norman Jewison
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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…
— James Payn
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Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal…
— Teresa of Avila
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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.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
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I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that…
— Howard Gardner
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Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook,…
— Marcus Buckingham
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As The Pioneer Woman has grown and the revenue has grown, the prizes keep getting better, and that certainly feels good.
— Ree Drummond
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Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
— Ree Drummond
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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…
— Kate Mosse
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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…
— Kate Mosse
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of…
— Robert Henri
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The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs…
— Steven Pressfield
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Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest;…
— Euripides
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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.
— Khalil Gibran
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream…
— William Gibson
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Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer…
— Al Gore
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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…
— William Congreve
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