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1 " It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought. "
― Don DeLillo
2 " All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking. "
― Vicki Covington , Bird of Paradise
3 " One cannot underestimate boredom as an incentive to write. "
― Philip Zaleski , The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
4 " How does paying people more money make you more money?It works like this. The more you pay your workers, the more they spend. Remember, they're not just your workers- they're your consumers, too. The more they spend their extra cash on your products, the more your profits go up. Also, when employees have enough money that they don't have to live in constant fear of bankruptcy, they're able to focus more on their work- and be more productive. With fewer personal problems and less stress hanging over them, they'll lose less time at work, meaning more profits for you. Pay them enough to afford a late model car (i.e. one that works), and they'll rarely be late for work. And knowing that they'll be able to provide a better life for their children will not only give them a more positive attitude, it'll give them hope- and an incentive to do well for the company because the better the company does, the better they'll do.Of course, if you're like most corporations these days- announcing mass layoffs right after posting record profits- then you're already hemorrhaging the trust and confidence of your remaining workforce, and your employees are doing their jobs in a state of fear. Productivity will drop. That will hurt sales. You will suffer. Ask the people at Firestone: Ford has alleged that the tire company fired its longtime union employees, then brought in untrained scab workers who ended up making thousands of defective tires- and 203 dead customers later, Firestone is in the toilet. "
― Michael Moore , Stupid White Men
5 " Your being happy is an incentive to the world. "
6 " Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven. "
― Garry Crystal , And When the Arguing's Over...
7 " Bing tightened his fingers around hers...." I know what I want." She raised an eyebrow. " What is that?" " Only you." And as he said the words, he felt a tremendous weight lifting from his chest. " It's always been only you..." " All right." She narrowed her eyes. " But if you break my heart, I'm going to have Peaches have words with you." " That's threatening a police officer. Technically." " What are you going to do?" She flashed him a teasing smile. " Arrest me?" He bent his head to hers, all the way to her ear. " Stick with me and there might just be some handcuffs in your future," he whispered. She laughed out loud. " I'll take that as an incentive to speedily recover. "
8 " Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families—and DOD schools provide a world-class education that has proven time and again to be an incentive for sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines to reenlist. Military dependents that attend DoDDS schools are highly regarded by prestigious universities the world over for a number of reasons, but there’s one that you’d have a hard time replicating in a stateside school system: they’ve lived overseas, traveled the world, seen and experienced other cultures, learned foreign languages through immersion, and they’ve gained an understanding of the world that you can’t get in a traditional classroom. Add a rigorous curriculum and a long track record of high test scores throughout DoDDS, and it’s pretty easy to see why military kids are in such high demand. "
― Tucker Elliot , You Look Like A Teacher (Volume II)
9 " ..All of us are vulnerable to intense, non-productive angry reactions in our current relationships if we do not deal openly and directly with emotional issues from our first family—in particular, losses and cutoffs. If we do not observe and understand how our triangles operate, our anger can keep us stuck in the past, rather than serving as an incentive and guide to form more productive relationship patterns for the future. "
― Harriet Lerner , The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
10 " Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware. "
11 " Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. "
12 " My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved. "
13 " 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. "
14 " Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs. "
15 " There's a reasonable amount of traction in college education, particularly engineering, because quite a lot of that is privatized, so there is an incentive to set up new colleges of reasonably high quality. "