Pay Quotes - Page 31

There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.

People dont pay attention until they have to

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Why do I have to pay a reconnect fee when you all made the mistake?

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.

Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.