Top 441 Incentive Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
Silence is golden! [Malcolm Subban] knows not to talk too much smack cause you don't want to give me that incentive right?
Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
Somewhere along the line a convention developed that the opening of a film was just a laundry list of credits. There was no incentive to complicate an area that was settled.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.
I think a lot of guys get out of wrestling for financial incentive to go to the UFC, but I'm doing well.
As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.
Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.
Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.
What incentive does a university have to control costs when it has a steady supply of students being lent federal funds?
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.
I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little kid, so that was my incentive.
The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.
Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.
... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.
I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance on the pitch.
If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes.
Getting expelled from secondary school and going to a more arty-farty college gave me the incentive to perform and opened some doors.
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.
I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation!
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
If you can't see an example of what you could be, you really aren't going to have that extra incentive to break through any types of barriers.
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
No one wants to move if they have a choice - it's a horrible experience. If I manage to address their issue, there's really no incentive to pack up and leave.
My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.
We must give young people and others who cannot find a job a direct and clear incentive to create one for themselves by starting a business.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
The federal government should not be in the business of initiating and administering short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior.
To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
