Payoff Quotes

• Killing is the payoff of war.

  Morley Safer

  War, Killing

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• It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

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• People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

  Sia Furler

  People, Honest, Horror

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

  Jon Rappoport

  Freedom, Matter, Ifs

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• My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it

  Will Estes

  Dog, Responsibility, Priorities

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• The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Good Day, Writing

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.215, Anchor

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• I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

  Keith Murray

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

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• The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me.' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.

  Hank Williams III

  Country, Military, Kids

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• Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Government, Worthwhile Things, Years

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment and saving usually have a big payoff in promoting economic growth.

  Paul Samuelson

  Philosophy, Real, Political

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• Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

  Bobby Flay

  Inspirational, Success, Mistake

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• You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Faces, Film, Your Face

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

  Peter Frampton

  Art, Guitar, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen

  Thurston Moore

  Growing Up, Aerospace, People

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• Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs and Quinton’s biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You’re welcome.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Sorry, Biceps

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.568, Tammara Webber

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• People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

  Tana French

  Self, People, Giving

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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• What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

  Francine Prose

  Angel, Love Is, Blue

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• Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Lines, Way

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• The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

  Harvey Mackay

  Cost, Study, Praise

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• Bank of America is to sweetheart loans and Democratic Party payoffs as Paula Deen is to sugar and bacon grease.

  Michelle Malkin

  Party, America, Grease

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• Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

  Scott Adams

  Dating, Religion, Principles

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

  Suze Orman

  Home, Psychics, Needs

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• If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

  Eric Ries

  Stress, Goal, Entrepreneur

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• Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

  Thomas Pynchon

  Government, World, Narrative

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• Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Attitude, Opportunity

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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