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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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• We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

  Denise Mina

  Nice, Air, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

  Shawn Wayans

  Character, Would Be, Stuff

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• 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, Practice

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

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• A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Organization, People

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

  Brian Tracy

  Sacrifice, Pay, Fields

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• Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent.

  Margo Jefferson

  Heart, Creativity, Hands

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• The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it.

  Chalene Johnson

  Hard Work, Results, Sweating

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• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

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• The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

  Warren Buffett

  Team, Play, Dwelling

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.49, Carolina Academic Press

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• If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

  Alfie Kohn

  Commitment, Punishment, Shoes

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

  Ralph Nader

  Book, Research, Benefits

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• The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Father, Grateful, Greatness

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• Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Kindness, Small Kindnesses, Produce

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 19, 2011

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• For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

  Stephen King

  Heart, School, Emotional

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• I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as the payoff, and in part because I think there are a wealth of relationships out there (friend, sibling, rival, etc.), and straight-up romance interests me less than tension.

  V. E. Schwab

  Sibling, Thinking, Long

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?

  Julia Cameron

  Expansion, Stuck

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.129, Souvenir Press

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• Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

  Denis Waitley

  Night, Desire, Want

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• When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.

  Tom Rath

  Long, Action, Moments

  Tom Rath, James K. Harter, Jim Harter (2010). “Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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