“The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.” MenLongPastHighestScientistFellowsRewardsDebtPrizeSolemnNobelNobel Prize Author:Edward Mills Purcell
“Unfortunately, the vast majority of people spend their days either living in the dead past or the imagined future. This sort of mental activity cheats a person out of the most precious time we have ... NOW. Give everything you have to what you are doing NOW and life will richly reward you.” PeopleGivingPersonsPastActivityMajorityRewardsCheatPrecious Time Author:Bob Proctor
“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.” IfsShouldPastFameBlessedFortuneFruitRewardsSeedsDharmaBeing BlessedGreat Reward Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.” MayMatterPastDeserveRewardsKarmaInnocentTreacherousMatter Of Time Author:Kevin McCarty
“I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.” ThinkingMenImportantPastOpportunityResponsibilityEnvironmentRewardsAvailableCorporateParticipants Author:Betty Friedan
“Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.” GivingLooksSoulDreamPainPastDestinyAliveDutyAchievementRewardsEmptinessNothingnessToilIncentivesOur DestinyYour DestinyHere And NowDaydreamingDesolation Author:Dag Hammarskjold