Zitat des Tages über Belohnung / Reward:
For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd.
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
It is the American way to reward ability.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.