#prize

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#nobel #nobel prize #opportunity #prize #public

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#feature #folks #fought #from time to time #justice

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#contract #did #fair #first #got

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#beautiful #full #holes #memory #most

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#else #every #eyes #golden #keep

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#dwarfed #generally #grafted #high #high price

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. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #both #degree #did #enough

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn't sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little. ↗

— Richard Harris

#common #deal #half #half way #hundreds

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#nothing #prize #prizes #work