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Quotes About Rewards

Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope.
~ Mary Karr
The doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the dead at the end of time originated about two centuries before the life of Jesus, and by his day it had become a common feature of Jewish thought. Later, at the hands of Christians, it came to be transformed into a teaching of post-mortem rewards and punishments, the ideas of heaven and hell.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The problem is, the rewards and the costs of adding more things to the Home page aren't shared equally. The section that's being promoted gets a huge gain in traffic, while the overall loss in effectiveness of the Home page as it gets more cluttered is shared by all sections.
~ Steve Krug
Los incentivos constituyen la piedra angular de la vida moderna.
~ Steven D. Levitt
people respond to incentives—
~ Steven D. Levitt
If there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Humans respond to incentives.
~ Steven D. Levitt
Incentivize them on the dimensions that are valuable to them but cheap for you to provide.
~ Steven D. Levitt
there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives. As utterly obvious as this point may seem, we are amazed at how frequently people forget it, and how often it leads to their undoing. Understanding the incentives of all the players in a given scenario is a fundamental step in solving any problem.
~ Steven D. Levitt
But if you want to think like a Freak, you must learn to be a master of incentives—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
~ Steven D. Levitt
His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
~ Teresa of Avila
I love awards, especially if I get them.
~ Ben Gazzara
Long ago, in the dim mists of time, we began to realize that reality was structured as if it could be bargained with. We learned that behaving properly now, in the present—regulating our impulses, considering the plight of others—could bring rewards in the future, in a time and place that did not yet exist.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The financial sector provides ample rewards for those who agree with them: lucrative consultancies, research grants, and the like. The documentary raises a question: Could this have influenced some economists' judgments?
~ Joseph E. Stiglitz
And in addition to the credits, my avatar received an equal number of experience points for obtaining the coins.
~ Ernest Cline
All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.
~ Evan Esar
I like giving the audience a lot of stuff to look at, and rewards for repeated viewings and paying attention.
~ Rich Moore
Like everyone else, rich people respond to incentives.
~ Tucker Carlson
Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.
~ Bill Gates
'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'
~ Paul Samuelson
People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.
~ Ricky Gervais
The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.
~ Jane McGonigal
I do not think UFC gives wrestling of the night bonus.
~ Charles Oliveira
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
~ Kurt Vonnegut