#prizes

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

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

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

— Katharine Hepburn

#nothing #prize #prizes #work

It is my express wish that in awarding the 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

#candidates #consideration #express #given #most

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

#chief #first #found #hand #heart

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. ↗

— William Feather

#daily #each #emergencies #go #meet

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#his #i #influences #least #liberty

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 she despises. ↗

— William Congreve

#forgets #hates #herself #laughs #likes

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#educational #failure #furnish #institutes #life

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#fellow #film #hammering #kept #prizes