Self Interested Behavior And Incentives Are Quotes & Sayings

And then we came here for three weeks of band rehearsal with [music consultant/member of the band "Sloan"] Chris Murphy. And I grew up in Toronto during Sloan's heyday, so like I was like "Oh my god!" And so that was pretty cool. — Alison Pill

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters. — Toby Jones

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs. — Alice Cooper

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God. — Frances Farmer

Anything that provides you with an edge over others is worth knowing. — Steve Cohen

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters. — Eddie Van Halen

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. — Henry B. Eyring

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands. In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will always be the outsider, Nemesis had told him, the seventh wheel. You will not find a place among your brethren. — Rick Riordan

R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As far as my fundamentalist upbringing goes, Noll says that for the kind of thinking that embraces society, the arts, the human person, and nature - "for that kind of thinking the habits of mind fundamentalism encouraged can only be called disaster. — John Piper

Don't you just hate it when you go to a friend's funeral and you get kidnapped? — James Patterson

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong. — Richard J. Needham

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. — Stephen Nachmanovitch