Quotes About Compensation

Sería estúpido ignorar que entre los individuos hay inteligentes y tontos, diligentes o haraganes, inventivos o rutinarios y lerdos, estudiosos y perezosos, etcétera. Y sería injusto que en nombre de la «igualdad» todos recibieran el mismo salario pese a sus distintas aptitudes y méritos.

siguiera recibiendo el sueldo que le correspondía como profesor universitario cuando cumplió la edad de la jubilación

degradó cuando aquéllos, que recibían salarios de acuerdo al número de palabras que usaban en sus peroratas, empezaron a hinchar sus discursos para ganar más.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

At times soldiers were even paid in salt, which was the origin of the word salary and the expression "worth his salt" or "earning his salt." In fact, the Latin word sal became the French word solde, meaning pay, which is the origin of the word, soldier.

TWO COMPENSATIONS FOR GROWING OLD are worth putting on record as the condition asserts itself. The first is a vantage point gained for acquiring embellishments to narratives that have been unfolding for years beside one's own, trimmings that can even appear to supply the conclusion of a given story, though finality is never certain, a dimension always possible to add.

anyone who chose to provide information leading to the conviction of a Catholic priest could expect a payment of £100 (about £7,500 today).

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

Like the matchmaker's commission, it was the sort of fee that had to be paid on the spot.

Valor não é quanto uma coisa custa, rapaz. Isso é lenda. Valor é quanto alguém está disposto a pagar. Ou ser pago

There are nearly always residual phenomena, a partial hanging-back. When an open-handed Maecenas surprises us by some isolated trait of miserliness, or when a person who is consistently over-kind suddenly indulges in a hostile action, such 'residual phenomena' are invaluable for genetic research. They show us that these praise-worthy and precious qualities are based on compensation and overcompensation which, as was to have been expected, have not been absolutely and fully successful.

Tous les enfants essaient de compenser la séparation du sevrage par des conduites de séduction et de parade; on oblige le garçon à dépasser ce stade, on le délivre de son narcissisme en le fixant sur son pénis; tandis que la fillette est confirmée dans cette tendance à se faire objet qui est commune à tous les enfants.

She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made fun of my faults, only of my virtues;

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded each sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.

My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.

It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free.

I suppose you could say that Paul is a … hustler? His rich wife Corina paid him grandly when they divorced, wouldn't you say?" "That's called alimony," I laughed.

Patron. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery').

How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat.