Quotes About Reward

Man's inability to see the power of regression to the mean leaves him blind to the nature of the world around him. We are exposed to a lifetime schedule in which we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. What

A system was groping toward a solution, but the solution required someone in it to be brave, and the system didn't reward bravery. It was stuck in an infinite loop of first realizing that it was in need of courage and then remembering that courage didn't pay. Charity didn't think of it this way, but it was striking how often the system returned to her and very nearly sought her leadership, without ever formally acknowledging its need.

Value investors like Graham and Dodd are so focused on being the last one laughing that they miss a lot of the laughs in between.

THE LESS OF a man I became, and the more of an automaton, so the dreams and half-memories ceased to plague me. It was as if they had deliberately driven me into this mindless rôle; so long as I continued to be a creature without remorse or conscience they would reward me with their absence. If I again showed signs of ordinary Humanity, then they would punish me with their presence.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

Being sincere and true to yourself is a scary thing but, ultimately, a rewarding one.

Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

I'd always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward.

Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

What I have learned about the sport of cycling is that you have to love it to do it because you're not going to retire off of it.

I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There's no greater reward.

So, Henry and his mother and father bent and pounced together. Henry felt a little uncomfortable to see his mother catching worms, but he was very, very glad when the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five worm was put in the jar. He took his jars of worms to Mr. Grumbie, who paid him thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents.

a taxing slog for an old puffed-out flubba-wubba like me, but worth it for the view, which was sensational—like being on top of the world.

Nobody does anything for nothing.