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Winning Prizes Quotes By Freeman Dyson

Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes. — Freeman Dyson

Winning Prizes Quotes By Nelson Mandela

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards. — Nelson Mandela

Winning Prizes Quotes By Douglass North

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 and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students. — Douglass North

Winning Prizes Quotes By Denise Duhamel

While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published. — Denise Duhamel

Winning Prizes Quotes By Max Fisher

It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes. — Max Fisher

Winning Prizes Quotes By Kate Winslet

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid. — Kate Winslet

Winning Prizes Quotes By Boria Sax

We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to confront that loneliness and the uncertainty with which human beings, in the end, live and die. — Boria Sax

Winning Prizes Quotes By Alfie Kohn

When we set children against one another in contests - from spelling bees to awards assemblies to science "fairs" (that are really contests), from dodge ball to honor rolls to prizes for the best painting or the most books read - we teach them to confuse excellence with winning, as if the only way to do something well is to outdo others. — Alfie Kohn

Winning Prizes Quotes By Pete Sampras

Winning is about taking your opponent's heart out and squeezing it until all the blood has come out, even the very last drop. There are no prizes for a funny loser. — Pete Sampras

Winning Prizes Quotes By Katharine Hepburn

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win. — Katharine Hepburn

Winning Prizes Quotes By Jordan L. Hawk

What was wrong with me? Even a cursory glance at the revelers behind me showed other people had no trouble with boisterous crowds, and some even relished them. And although I might not have minded viewing the kinetoscope, the promise of winning cheap prizes by shooting clay pigeons or tossing a ring onto a milk jug held no appeal for me. I'd rather be curled up in a chair at home, reading a book — Jordan L. Hawk

Winning Prizes Quotes By Michael Johnson

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one. — Michael Johnson

Winning Prizes Quotes By George Wells Beadle

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

Winning Prizes Quotes By Sylvia Plath

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

Winning Prizes Quotes By Freeman Dyson

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy. — Freeman Dyson

Winning Prizes Quotes By Joanna Russ

He's beginning to like me. I am a better and better audience as I get numbed, and although I've played this game of Impress You (and won it, too--though I don't like either of the prizes; winning is too much like losing) I'm too tired to go on playing tonight. — Joanna Russ

Winning Prizes Quotes By Euripides

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; these are best. — Euripides

Winning Prizes Quotes By Jim Crace

I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books. — Jim Crace

Winning Prizes Quotes By Robert Henri

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 the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy. — Robert Henri

Winning Prizes Quotes By Jeanette Winterson

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you. — Jeanette Winterson

Winning Prizes Quotes By Ahmed Zewail

After World War II, scientific research in the U.S. was well supported. In the 1960s, when I came to America, the sky was the limit, and this conducive atmosphere enabled many of us to pursue esoteric research that resulted in America winning the lion's share of Nobel Prizes. — Ahmed Zewail

Winning Prizes Quotes By Lewis Carroll

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. — Lewis Carroll

Winning Prizes Quotes By Harvey Pekar

The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet. — Harvey Pekar