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Killing is the payoff of war. -- Morley Safer
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge. -- Mariska Hargitay
Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up. -- Suze Orman
The only real payoff for leadership is eternal. -- Patrick Lencioni
The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff. -- Daniel Goleman
Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. -- Bobby Flay
Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff. -- Kina Grannis
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities. -- Howard Raiffa
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. -- Scott Adams
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. -- Charles de Lint
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
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
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
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff. -- Denis Waitley
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
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
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...) In cultivated risk-taking, the encounter with danger and its resolution are bound up in the same activity, whereas in other consequential settings the payoff of chosen strategies may not be seen for years afterwards. -- Anthony Giddens
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
If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing. -- Charlene Li
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
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors. -- Michael Parenti
People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge. -- Harvey Mackay
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff. -- Sia Furler
Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself. -- Bobby Locke
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. -- William A. Dembski
With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff. -- Matisyahu
Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line. -- Rush Limbaugh
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen. -- Thurston Moore
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
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. -- Chuck Palahniuk
We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it. -- Darius Rucker
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
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff. -- Hilary Duff
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
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution. -- Josh Trank
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles. -- Denise Mina
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus. -- Paul Bloom
Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. -- Garry Trudeau
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician. -- Ian Anderson
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich. -- Eric Ries
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
I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat. -- Kirk Acevedo
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be. -- Jeff Abbott
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff -- Darren Hardy
We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff. -- Warren Buffett
What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion? -- Julia Cameron
The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it. -- Chalene Johnson
It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff. -- David B. Haight
The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff. -- Denis Waitley
If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned. -- Jon Rappoport
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
If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff. -- Bill Cosby
The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers. -- Alan Cooper
If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater. -- Axl Rose
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
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
I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff. -- Louis C. K.
You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point. -- Anne Lamott
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER. -- Michelle Singletary
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
It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen -- Thurston Moore
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent. -- Esther Dyson
It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff. -- Harrison Ford
The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting. -- Kevin Kelly
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
Someone putting down $25 of his or her hard-earned money to buy my product, then doing it again because they felt the payoff was worth it. That's as good as it gets for an author. -- Brad Thor

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