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• There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

  Eric Maisel

  Numbers, Creative, Infinite

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.223, Penguin

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• The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Giving, Influence

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

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• There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Appreciation, Money, Sex

  "The Greatest Management Principle in the World". Book by Michael LeBoeuf, p. 97, 1985.

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• Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Family, Success

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.64, Bantam

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• Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Secret

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

  Susan Cain

  Giving, Way

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.173, Broadway Books

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• America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Art, America, Humanity

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• The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Essays". Volume 2,

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• A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Leaving, Analysis

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

  Dale Dauten

  Journey, Greed, Curiosity

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• In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Given, Staggering, Capitalist

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• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Zhuangzi (1927). “Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ”

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• People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

  Herman Melville

  Peace, Food, Men

  Herman Melville (1967). “Moby-Dick: An authoritative text”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ask often, be content of little, reward always.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Often Is, Contentment

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• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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• Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

  Diogenes

  Dog, Philosopher, Dog Heaven

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• Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Inspirational, Lying, Blessing

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”

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• The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

  William Feather

  Money, Energy, Taxes

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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• Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

  Howard Berman

  Long, Competition, Levels

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• A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

  Burt Lancaster

  Mother, Circus, Like A Mother

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• The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Ideas, Mind, Literature

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• Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Character

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

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