If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.
For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story. . . or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.
The problem is that every study I'm aware of, which is probably not that many, has indicated that a dollar spent in preparation and avoidance of natural disasters is worth $15 that is spent in relief. But there's no political payoff for preparation. So, who benefits? I mean, the governor or senator or the president? Bill Clinton at Oklahoma City, his performance there helped him enormously. And there really hasn't been any regulation that would, in fact, interfere with environmental disaster.
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.
The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.
The best pay off in the world is when someone comes up to you and says, 'your music has helped me with some pretty rough times through life. I don't know if I would still be here if it was for your music whether it be country music or heavy metal has done for me. ' That's ultimately the biggest payoff for me. I hear it from young kids to military guys and military women to older folks.
Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.
We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.
The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.
The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.
The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.
The results are the payoff. And all this sweating and hard work will be worth it.
I'd love to write full time. But it's not something that is due to me because I'm a writer. Times are very hard for doing the thing you love, but the payoff for not having much money is that you love your job. A balance would be good. But yes, given infinite funds, or a guaranteed regular income of some kind, I'd happily shut myself away and write stories for the rest of what I've got in me.
The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff
Sorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs and Quinton’s biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You’re welcome.
Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.
