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• Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.

  Frank Gehry

  Expression, People, Culture

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.

  Doc Childre

  Education, Moving, Emotional

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• Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

  Darren Hardy

  Long, Instant Gratification, Term

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Oct 24, 2014

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• Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

  William H. Macy

  Littles, Nine, More Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was all for the eventual payoff and thank-you by giving Hillary Clinton the Democrat Party presidential nomination. And it went awry in 2008 because somebody they liked better came along. Somebody they really liked better. I mean, somebody they loved better. They threw her overboard like an unwanted sack of potatoes down on the farm for Barack Hussein Obama. And she seethed, felt betrayed. Don't blame her a bit. They betrayed her big time.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Mean, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Bill Clinton became president, and he [Bill Clinton] kept cheating - and she kept destroying the women. She was supposed to be paid off in 2008. They gave her health care; she botched that. Hillarycare, it was called in 1993, '94, whatever. That was her first payoff. Co-presidency was the next payoff.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cheating, President, Care

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.

  Michael Boatman

  Book, Character, Mind

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Self, Reason

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• Blogging is different from both journal-writing and writing for print. It's more fun than either of those. The freedom to write whatever I want and the unmediated connection with readers are the payoff.

  Kate Christensen

  Fun, Writing, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Try not to be concerned with it. It's a spiritual thing. Don't look for the results, don't live in the payoff. Live in the moment which is a spiritual principle. Live in the moment and let the results take care of themselves. It's in the hands of God. The rest is all ego. And I have learned, over the years, it's got nothing to do with me. As my life is none of my business.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Spiritual, Hands, Years

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• Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Educational, Moving

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• We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

  Warren Buffett

  Bigs, Certain, Trade

  "Why Won't Buffett Invest in Tech Stocks?". The Motley Fool, www.fool.com. March 06, 2000.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.

  David B. Haight

  Love, Giving

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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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• 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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