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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, Asteroids, Location

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• I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Laughing, Way

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Laughing, Challenges, Pages

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing.

  Charlene Li

  Thinking, Media, People

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• The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

  Howard Raiffa

  Advice, Trying, Probability

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.

  Michael Parenti

  Running, Gun, Government

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• If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

  Bill Cosby

  Waiting, Want, Audience

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• The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Venture, Humans, Expected

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.24, Random House

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• So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

  Nicole Mones

  Fun, Interesting, Way

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• The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

  Gerry Beckley

  Night, Fans, Rewards

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• I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like it's a collage. You tell the narrative, you tell the story, but you feel like you've created this tapestry. But it also has a shape, a story. So I think there's a middle ground that I try to strike... away from where everyone else seems ready to go, which is, setup, payoff. You know, He's afraid of water, oh, and at the end he's swimming in water - oh, my God. I hate that stuff.

  Shane Black

  Hate, Writing, Swimming

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". Interview with Harmony Korine, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Running, Technology, Race

  Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

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• Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Powerful, Real

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• People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Site

  "Go with the flow". Interview with John Geirland, www.wired.com. September 1, 1996.

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• There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Intelligent, Design

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• Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

  Kina Grannis

  Artist, Fans, Video

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• [C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Years, Risk

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