Quotes About Reward

The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that, in many cases, are the product of generations of thinkers and/or publicly funded research.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.

Being nuts is its own reward.

To deny to others their due praise and gratitude is not to rob them, for God will be their reward, but it is a judgment on ourselves. Never

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.

There are some lucky people who feel they experience happiness when they gaze at a cloud or walk on the beach but the rest of us only get that special tingly buzz when we've bought, won, achieved, hooked or booked something. Then our own brains give us a hit of dopamine, which makes us feel good. We don't need substances; we are our own drug dealers. The

whenever I achieve a little something and am complimented, shortly thereafter I am swiftly kicked in the ass by karma.

With dopamine it's the craving; that's the thing that drives you, not the actual shoe. It's the chase – the thrill of the hunt driven on by cues in the environment that predict the next shoe around the corner. Dopamine does not always generate pleasure but impels you to seek rewards. You can be a very unhappy addict. If

He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.

the best ones are often the most difficult to find. But

Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there.

Sixth, the libertarian fancies that this world is a stage for the ego, with its appetites and self-assertive passions. But the conservative finds himself in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required— and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

Concentrate on the reward, not the labor, and the achievement, the accomplishment, will become a little easier to obtain.

When he came home at night to his children, he may have been tired and poor and overwhelmed, but he was alive. He was his own boss. He was responsible for his own decisions and direction. His work was complex: it engaged his mind and imagination. And in his work, there was a relationship between effort and reward.

What else did you expect from helping someone out? Isn't it enough that you've done what your nature demands? You want a salary for it too? As if your eyes expected a reward for seeing, or your feet for walking. That's what they were made for.

Dig deep; the water- goodness- is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up

The reward of friendship is friendship itself.

Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it will rain? Good bones, good bones, I coax, wondering how to reward them; if they will sit up for me, beg, roll over, do one more trick, once more. There. We're at the top. Good bones! Good bones ! Keep on going.

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.

the road to success is littered with mistakes, it matters more to build trust and encourage ambition than to reward obedience. At

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.