I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
A. S. Byatt
For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.
Aamir Khan
Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you're going to be happy about it.
Aaron Donald
Anytime you're rewarded for the success you have, you're going to be happy because you put the body of work in. A lot of hard work. A lot of training. A lot of things you do behind the scenes.
Any time you're rewarded and can be a part of history, it's a special moment.
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
Aaron Eckhart
If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
Aaron Patzer
It's unbelievable what the rewards are like with being a footballer, but I'm not stupid - I don't go around flaunting it.
Aaron Ramsey
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
Abbey Clancy
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Sandalwood is a force to reckon with. People from all over are investing time and money here because the films have good reach and reap good rewards as well.
Abhimanyu Singh
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Abraham Maslow
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
Abu Bakr
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
Adam Grant
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay
Doing comedy stuff is maybe more fun, but maybe the serious stuff is a little bit more rewarding.
Adam Page
One of the most gratifying, rewarding things is when people come up, and they tell you how the show influenced their lives in a very positive way. When I do these things like Comic Con, I get people who are lawyers, judges, plumbers, carpenters, and entire families, and it's mostly for 'Batman.' But now, amazingly, it's also for 'Family Guy.'
Adam West
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
I believe if you keep pushing and keep believing, you get your rewards.
Adama Traore
With hard work comes rewards and I want to make youngsters who could have gone left but went right find the right path.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
I'm still good friends with everybody from 'Teen Wolf.' I still see them, and I go to Jeff Davis' for 'Teen Wolf' night when I can. It was such a rewarding experience. That's such a fun set.
As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.
We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'
I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.
Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
People know that when they watch an Ainsley programme or get an Ainsley book it's going to be something that is approachable and something that is achievable and ultimately something that is rewarding.
It's a brilliant place to be. It's rewarding. Gardens are so rewarding.
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself.
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
It is just more rewarding to do things in a supportive environment.
The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.
I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding relationships with their pre-adolescent children are, nevertheless, waiting apprehensively and bracing themselves for the stormy adolescent period.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
We, as wrestlers, need to remember that this is a business. We started because we love the business, and we stay in it because we have a lot of passion for it, but you have to be rewarded for your work.
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.
I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.
I prefer to focus on who I am as a person and what I stand for. We all want to look good, but I find it more rewarding to work on feeling good and going a bit deeper beneath the surface.
In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.
In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?
