Quotes About Reward

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay for new medicines? Innovators should be rewarded according to the impact of their medicine, and people should contribute to these rewards according to their ability to pay.

Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

If you wait until the spirit moves you to run, you will probably have many empty spaces in your training journal. You must also be in charge of the little things that keep the schedule filled—such as spending a few minutes a week to plan your weekly runs, and to reward yourself afterward.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Well, if there was any real reward for complaining I hadn't seen it so far, in a life filled with suffering and verbal skill. So I might as well take what was offered and see where it led.

I had just forgotten, somehow, that life was struggle, and the only reward was to be allowed to live a little longer and struggle harder.

Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.

The experience of watching Leonard get better was like reading certain difficult books. It was like plowing through late James, or the pages about agrarian reform in Anna Karenina, until you suddenly got to a good part again, which kept on getting better and better until you were so enthralled that you were almost grateful for the previous dull stretch because it increased your eventual pleasure.

Dessert is my reward for having met my goals during the day. Really, dessert is an event rather than a specific item.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

I don't really think about my work in terms of whatever money it makes. That's just a bonus. I'm just going to do the work anyway, so whatever comes back is good with me.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.