Quotes of: Rewards Keyword

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Henry Taube

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

John Walters

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

Kathryn Bigelow

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

Otto Preminger

the parts of the brain corresponding to the limbic system (thought to respond only to more visceral, immediate rewards) were activated only when the decision involved comparing a reward today with one in the future. In contrast, the lateral prefronta...

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I�...

Ricky Gervais

Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the ...

Virginia Woolf

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

The Christian Religion An Enquiry

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

The Circle

Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

Buster Keaton: Tempest In A Flat Hat

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Jean Cocteau

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

James Surowiecki

What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.

Charles Duhigg

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Mahatma Gandhi

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.

Lily Cole

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

Norah Vincent

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Philo

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

Sara Maitland

I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.

Steve Nash

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Samuel Smiles

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted Engstrom