#reward

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle. ↗

— Mike Watt

#expression #fit #form #get #imitation

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#cycle #i #myself #particularly #reward

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life. ↗

— Paul Stanley

#financial #freedom #great #i #i love

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards. ↗

— David Caruso

#risk #willing #you

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#being #cannot #going #happen #hard

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#education #effectively #high #high schools #impedes

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

#because #betray #citizens #councils #created

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#confide #like #mother #punishes #rewards

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#after #coming #compare #event #goodness