#reward

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question. ↗

— Alfie Kohn

#parenting #rewards #business

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded. ↗

— John Dobbin

#brain #close #everyone #eyes #good

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#lies #punished #rewarded #truth #age

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#promise #reward #work #experience

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#bookworms #heavenly-rewards #judgment #reading #love

Sometimes that's all you get out of life. Great shoes. ↗

— Pepper Phillips

#shoes #life

Whether it means prizing the value of lessons learned, building games into your creative process, or getting gifts upon certain milestones of achievement, self-derived rewards make a big difference…You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits. ↗

— Scott Belsky

#self-motivation #motivational

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect. ↗

— Luther Campbell

#hard #hard work #respect #rewarded #work

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. ↗

— Ovid

#deed #good #good deed #men #reward

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artists #bad #fame #give #intoxication