"Prize" Quotes . Top 32 Short Quotes About "Prize"

"I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Thinking #Prize #Curiosity

"I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Thinking #Prize #Trying

"People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work."

--- Aaron Klug

#People #Prize #Imaginative

"Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments."

--- Aaron Tveit

#Prize #Terrific #Fortunate

"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

#Prize #Mets #Eye

"I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee."

--- Abraham Coles

#Prize #Values #Ought

"Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!"

--- Abraham Cowley

#Prize #Cheating #Lottery

"It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Prize #Preservation #Frowning

"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."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Prize #Preservation #Heritage

"To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest."

--- Adrienne Rich

#Prize #Brotherhood #Tokens

"He who shares the danger ought to share the prize."

--- Aesop

#Prize #Share #Life

"I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science."

--- Ahmed H. Zewail

#People #Prize #Feels

"I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something."

--- Ahmed H. Zewail

#Thinking #Prize #Reason

"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 review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence."

--- Al Gore

#Prize #Peer Review #Reviews

"I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.""

--- Alan Bennett

#Prize #Said #Beautiful

"Parts win prizes, not actors."

--- Alan Rickman

#Prize #Actors #Winning

"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul."

--- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Prize #Fear #War Of The Worlds

"There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand."

--- Alejandro Castro Espin

#Prize #Including #Security

"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

#Prize #Long #Way

"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 already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result."

--- Alexander Morozevich

#Thinking #Prize #Fighting

"See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot."

--- Alexander Pope

#Youth #Prize #Rewards

"What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize."

--- Alexander Pope

#Prize #Soul #Heart Felt

"But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!"

--- Alexander Pope

#Prize #Ambition #Crosses

"O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes."

--- Alexander Pope

#Prize #Eye #Life

"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

#Prize #Change #Human Thought

"I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame."

--- Alexander Smith

#Prize #I Have Learned #Quiet

"Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long."

--- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Prize #Long #Materials

"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

#Prize #Units #Eye

"It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel 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."

--- Alfred Nobel

#Prize #Candidates #Scandinavia

"In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth."

--- Alfred North Whitehead

#Prize #Armor #Animal

"Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward."

--- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Prize #Rewards #Listeners

"Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart."

--- Allan Snyder

#Prize #Aspergers #Features

32 "Prize" Quotes