Recognition of Achievement Quotes

After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!'

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

Our movement was a great success; I think the most successful military movement of my life. But I expect to receive more credit for it than I deserve. Most men will think I planned it all from the first; but it was not so. I simply took advantage of circumstances as they were presented to me in the providence of God. I feel that His hand led me - let us give Him the glory.

Performing at the TMCF Awards Gala is so exciting.

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.

At the premiere of Hairspray on Broadway, Harvey Fierstein's mom said to my mom, "Didn't we raise great sons?" and my mother just started sobbing, because I'm sure they'd both been through other nights when people didn't say that.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

The All-Star Game was one of my top highlights as a player. In my eye, it gave me a good idea of where I ranked among my peers. That was always my benchmark to say that I am still in the upper echelon of players.

Bestow rewards, erect statues, confer even titles so that they be personal alone; but never bind the crown of merit on the brow of sloth.

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

Radium was discovered by Madame Curie…. In defiance of the dogma that woman is inferior, public homage was rendered to Madame Curie in awarding her with the Nobel Prize.

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

I am honored to receive the James Beard award and so incredibly proud of my entire team at Eleven Madison Park.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

I got the famous Oprah hug!