Skip to content

Everybody Quote by Paul Dini

“If everybody's a winner, nobody has to try very hard.” quote by Paul Dini — Download Open image

“If everybody's a winner, nobody has to try very hard.”

About This Quote

Source Interview: Comic Book Writers, 1995

If everyone is guaranteed success, effort declines.

In simple terms: Guaranteed success reduces effort.

Key Takeaway

Maintain challenges to motivate.

Themes

competition motivation effort

Mood

thoughtful critical

Type

psychological motivational

When to use this quote

sports
education
workplace
gaming

Key Concepts

psychology of incentives fairness

Questions to Reflect On

What motivates you beyond winning?
How can you foster effort without competition?

A Different Perspective

Overemphasis on winning can diminish learning.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Everybody Everybody Winner Football Hard Nobody Try Try hard Winner Winner Try

More by Paul Dini

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from…

Image

I was writing a script about the Joker menacing a regular person who had strayed into his path, and I needed to give him…

Image

Batman is dark and moody and spooky and, in some cases, methodical.

Image

We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even…

Image

I'll continue doing 'Jingle Belle' as long as I've got a good story for her.

Image

You have to be kind to yourself to survive in the world.

Image

Hugo Strange is interesting in the sense that he's a master manipulator. He doesn't really engage Batman in any sort of physical way. His…

Image

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

Image

I really didn't have any plan for her other than the henchgirl role, who was better at getting laughs out of the other gang…

Image

You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.

Image

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

Image

Kids love the Hulk, but they're not really sure: 'Is he a monster or is he a hero?'

Image

Explore all 105 Paul Dini quotes

More Everybody quotes

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

Image

I think everybody in the future has stopped talking to each other and we all just use emojis.

Scarlett Moffatt

Image

If you're in a meeting and a man talks loudly over you, rather than copying that behaviour and normalising it, what you could do…

Image

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

Image

Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Image

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's…

Image

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Kricfalusi

Image

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

Tyler Winklevoss

Image

But I didnt feel like an invalid even for a second. I knew that I could never be the player that I was, so…

Image

Medium is like the Instagram of the corporate world. It's the layer that we want everybody to see, but not actually how it is.…

Image

I think, whenever you're in the public eye, you're never going to be loved by everybody.

Image

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Image

Browse all 3,892 Everybody quotes