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• I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

  Maynard Webb

  Years, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.

  Richard Grasso

  Brother, People, Failing

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• Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Party, Long

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• Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Art, Difficult, Transient

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• Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Stories, Radio

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

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• The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Inspirational, Majority, Records

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• Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."

  Sophy Burnham

  Writing, Ice Cream, Giving

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• The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Frustration, Finding Love

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• It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

  Abu Bakr

  Islamic, Waste, Patient

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• Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, Government, Law

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• Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Ocean, Adversity

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• You can't take it with you! Whatever you have there you will have already sent ahead in the way of souls won, victories won, battles won and rewards won for your service here!

  David Berg

  Soul, Victory, Battle

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• Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Powerful, Mean, Science

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• Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Action, Results

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• When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

  Bill Nighy

  Good Night, Alarms, Proud

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

  Yelawolf

  Dream, Giving, Willing

  "Eminem sings Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf to shady records" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. January 12, 2011.

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• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Purple, Luxury

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Gratitude, Love Is, Axes

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

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• The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Motivation, Desire, Incentives

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.355, Coventry House Publishing

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• The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.

  Martial

  Shining, Tears, Toil

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.192

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• If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Quality, Virtue, Humans

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• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Taste

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• God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

  Joseph Addison

  Opportunity, Flames, Trials

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• I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

  Woody Allen

  Reality, Emotional, Thinking

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• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mind, Care

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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