Compensation Quotes
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.
Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.
Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.
I think that the consumer is generally unaware of certain material facts, particularly the tax risk and compensation issues.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.
Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality
If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.
As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher,and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.
When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.
Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
