Reward Quotes - page 24

Egmont: The Egmont of yon city - he is proud, And cold, and stern, and sorrowful. He keeps His counsel to himself. He wears a brow That is a smiling shadow to his heart : Perplexed with seeming mirth, that shroudeth care. Exalted by a giddy populace, That know not what they laud, or what they seek. Moving 'mid those who understand him not; Whom he has naught in common with : and worn By furious guarding 'gainst familiar friends Who seem, yet are not. Watched, suspected, feared; Wearied with labour, which hath neither end Nor yet reward; but only distant hope. Such is the Egmont of the field and state. But thine beloved : he is happy, frank, Open, and known to that most dear of hearts - Which he knows, too, and trusts it as his own. Calm, deeply joyful; such is Egmont now. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
You are really not watching at all, because your mind is concerned with gaining a reward. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
So look at this desire and its nature without thought which is always shaping sensations, pleasure and pain, reward and punishment. Then one understands, not verbally, nor intellectually, the whole causation of desire, the root of desire. The very perception of it, the subtle perception of it, that in itself is intelligence. And that intelligence will always act sanely and rationally in dealing with desire. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks. View quote
Richard Armitage
Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward. View quote
Glenda Jackson
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? View quote
William Morris
Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep - great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. View quote
Edward Mills Purcell
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. (Rufus Wainwright)
Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates. View quote
Kenneth Arrow
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange. View quote
Nick Cave
Addictive drugs misuse the brain's existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain's pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure. View quote
Nayef Al-Rodhan
It involves a precision choreography... between logical prediction systems and emotional reward systems. View quote
Daniel Levitin
We need systems that reward the best ideas, not the best presenters. View quote
Susan Cain
Virtue is indeed its own reward. View quote
Claudian
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. View quote
L. Frank Baum
My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service. View quote
Frank Miller
My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. (Frank Miller)
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. View quote
William Penn
The only reward for love is the experience of loving. View quote
John le Carré
No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say "what should be the reward of such sacrifices?" View quote
Samuel Adams