Even the strongest personality will regress and eventually may disintegrate if there is no incentive (other than threat of punishment) for the… — Joe Whitney Copy Share Image
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to… — James Risen Copy Share Image
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If you're in Alabama, you're selling tax incentives - with all due respect to Alabama - because what else are you going… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will… — Fred Krupp Copy Share Image
We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel… — Hal Higdon Copy Share Image
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The concept of Who Am I is following me around from 2001 to 2005, I filmed high quality videos but never really… — Cormega Copy Share Image
Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They… — Paul G. Hoffman Copy Share Image
Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and… — Witness Lee Copy Share Image
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, NBC and I plan to continue our relationship with several new co-ventures including a new music show, while we also explore… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers,… — Jerry Jasinowski Copy Share Image
Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a… — Greg Brown Copy Share Image
You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
