Quotes About Reward

optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One

His observation was astute and correct: occasions on which he praised a performance were likely to be followed by a disappointing performance, and punishments were typically followed by an improvement. But the inference he had drawn about the efficacy of reward and punishment was completely off the mark.

For the billionaire looking for the extra billion, and indeed for the participant in an experimental economics project looking for the extra dollar, money is a proxy for points on a scale of self-regard and achievement. These rewards and punishments, promises and threats, are all in our heads.

His observation was astute and correct: occasions on which he praised a performance were likely to be followed by a disappointing performance, and punishments were typically followed by an improvement. But the inference he had drawn about the efficacy of reward and punishment was completely off the mark. What he had observed is known as regression to the mean, which in that case was due to random fluctuations in the quality of performance.

Walter Mischel and his students exposed four-year-old children to a cruel dilemma. They were given a choice between a small reward (one Oreo), which they could have at any time, or a larger reward (two cookies) for which they had to wait 15 minutes under difficult conditions.

Although hindsight and the outcome bias generally foster risk aversion, they also bring undeserved rewards to irresponsible risk seekers, such as a general or an entrepreneur who took a crazy gamble and won.

Variability in judgments is also expected and welcome in a competitive situation in which the best judgments will be rewarded.

An avowed anti-Catholic, Maurice Maeterlinck, the twentieth-century Belgian philosopher and playwright, weighed in with: "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

The soul that loves God seeks no other reward than that God whom it loves. Were the soul to demand anything else, then it would certainly love that other thing and not God.

Eravamo il suo narratore, siamo diventati il suo contabile. «Se è così, allora stasera niente tivù!» Eh! Sì... Sì... La televisione elevata alla dignità di ricompensa... E, come corollario, la lettura relegata al rango di courvé. È nostra, questa gran trovata...

En la vida no se obtiene lo que se merece, sino lo que se sabe negociar, o lo que el destino depara.

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. And

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

My friends, for followers of Christ, it is impossible to give without receiving something back. It may not come back from the person or group we gave to. It may not come in the exact form we expected. But be assured, giving is rewarded! What gift do you have to give today?

The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Ne sous-estimez jamais le plaisir, c'est le salaire des mortels 

At the end of the day when you go home and hug your loved ones and taste that meal prepared with love, it will have a flavor the protected will never know. The sheep spend a lifetime eating grass, but you taste the flavor the protected will never know. That may be the warrior's greatest reward.

Live like no else today, so you can live like no else tomorrow.

Over the long term you get what you deserve, and none of us like it when what we deserve is pain.

If you will live like no one else, later you can "live" like no one else.

You see, if you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.