A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! — John Hancock Copy Share Image
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in terms… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The basic idea that incentives can be used to motivate behavior is a powerful one. It works for employees, and it has… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing… — Homer Rice Copy Share Image
I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in… — Choi Hong Hi Copy Share Image
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. — John Slattery Copy Share Image
The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward. — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
“Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
