The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

~ John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes Reward Taxes Intellectual

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Simone De Beauvoir Reward Guilt Truth Is

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

~ William Feather

William Feather Energy Reward Taxes

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

~ Daniel H. Pink

Daniel H. Pink Reward You Kind

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

~ Doug Larson

Doug Larson Listening Reward You

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

~ Johann Georg Hamann

Johann Georg Hamann Grief Reward Human

Peace is its own reward.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Reward Own

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

~ Keith Henson

Keith Henson People Reward Years

I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.

~ Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard Friends Reward Group

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

~ George Eliot

George Eliot Power Reward Duty