Best effort Quote by John Moulder Wilson

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts-the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. When neither is present, one can hardly…

— John Moulder Wilson

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they…

— Barry Schwartz

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

— Jim Rohn

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

— Michael Eisner

“Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.”

— Sun Tzu

“However, like negative fearmongering, simply handing out rewards does little but encourage “temporary compliance” with a course of action. The fact is, the activity…

— Sean Young

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

— Alfie Kohn

“the brain rewards us with more dopamine for the act of seeking a reward than for the act of receiving one.”

— Brad Stulberg