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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Tombstone, Tragedy, Triumph

  "PG&E's real estate rumors" by David Lazarus, www.sfgate.com. October 12, 2001.

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• It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beautiful, Discovery, Overwhelmed

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Preparation, Trying

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• For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

  Alan Alda

  Order, Forever, Heaven

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.9, Random House

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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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• Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Stars, Passion

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• The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Real, Eternal

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• What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Spiritual, Dog, Mean

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com. June 2014.

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• Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.

  Richard Pascale

  Knowledge, Learning, Names

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• Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Keys, Weather, Feet

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• Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

  Edie Falco

  Mother, Kids, Home

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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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• If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Past, Decision

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  I've learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we'll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Hard Work, Keys, Years

  FaceBook post by Dwayne The Rock Johnson from Nov 06, 2013

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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