Rewards Quotes - Page 29

In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.