Top 100 It Pays Quotes
#2. The theater is a kind of international language, and I like it. But I have a practical bent of mind, too. In any other field, I could make only about a tenth as much as I do acting. That's why I want to be a producer. It pays better, and you have more control.
Carolyn Jones
#3. When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.
David Hasselhoff
#7. China's critics rightly condemn the government for controlling public opinion in all sorts of ways, from imprisoning dissidents to censoring internet discussions. Yet the regime's obsession with control paradoxically means it pays close attention to public opinion.
Anonymous
#8. The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.
Jack Canfield
#9. It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
Janet Morris
#11. Rap is stress, but it pays great.
Drake
#12. What are you looking at?"
"I was thinking about becoming a lady of the night."
"What?"
"There's actually an ad looking for one. Can you believe it? It pays a grand a week."
"Shit, for a grand a week, "I'll become a lady of the night.
L.A. Fiore
#13. It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
Orison Swett Marden
#14. To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.
Isabella Rossellini
#15. It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.
Eugene H. Peterson
#16. It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.
Isabella Rossellini
#17. It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
Bob Dylan
#18. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.
Morrissey
#19. Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.
Nutan Bajracharya
#20. We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it's worth it, that it pays.
Peter Kreeft
#21. Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell
#22. There are some people who get money just because they've got large families. So if it pays to make large families and earn more money than you would earn out at work, why not have more families, larger families? That's wrong.
Robin Leach
#23. Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner ... it pays to be an expert.
Allan Pease
#25. It pays to be prepared.
Aesop
#26. The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
Robert McChesney
#27. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
#28. There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson
#30. Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.
Claudia Gray
#31. The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
Rodney Brooks
#32. What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them? It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
Franz Grillparzer
#33. Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
Bob Ross
#34. The human body is strangely made and sometimes it pays not to think about it too closely.
Walter Kirn
#35. And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention
Agota Kristof
#36. There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
George Orwell
#37. It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
#38. It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
James Howard Kunstler
#39. I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Andrew Eldritch
#40. The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.
Richard E. Besser
#41. Even if a movie's not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It's the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.
Scott Raab
#42. I love the theater and I particularly love the classical theater and I love doing Shakespeare. It pays the soul, but it doesn't pay the rent.
Stacy Keach
#43. A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
Austin O'Malley
#44. We are living in times that demand more and more of our brains and muscles, of our nerves and physical energy. Only those who are strong and know how to keep it so, can stand the wear and tear. It pays to stop once in a while to look over our machinery and oil the parts that need it.
Adrian Peter Schmidt
#45. I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
Aaron Yoo
#46. When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
Napoleon Hill
#47. The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.
Lee Ann Womack
#48. In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire
#49. Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.
Elizabeth Warren
#50. It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.
Tom Angleberger
#52. Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off.
Don Tapscott
#53. I am a very instinctive Conservative. I have created a welfare system where it pays to work. I have created independent schools within the state sector bringing excellence to children wherever they are.
David Cameron
#54. The acting job - it pays very well and you get to live a wonderful lifestyle, but it's something that I love doing, so I want to work with other people who enjoy it as well ...
Henry Cavill
#55. Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally important! It is just as important as the food it buys, the shelter it provides, the doctor bills it pays, and the education it helps to procure.
Venita VanCaspel
#57. It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.
Theodore Roosevelt
#58. We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558
Steven Erikson
#59. I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.
Jonathan Tucker
#61. What is so interesting about giving is not only that it pays, but that it pays in such unexpected ways. When you live with generosity, blessings come to you from corners and avenues you never would have expected.
Bob Burg
#62. It pays to get drunk with the best people.
Joe E. Lewis
#63. 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
R. Kelly
#64. Then again, maybe that's why I'm drawn to wonder: it pays no attention to priorities. Before
Durga Chew-Bose
#65. Entrepreneurs persevere until it pays off. One good day can make up for an entire month, and one good month can make up for an entire year. Don't give up. The isn't over 'till it's over!
Farshad Asl
#66. The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.
Angelus Silesius
#67. Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.
Aldo Leopold
#68. My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.
Bette Midler
#69. It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher
#70. The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.
Mark Shields
#71. It just goes to show, if you need a little Christmas, it pays to find someone who needs it more.
Z.A. Maxfield
#72. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms.
Steven Erikson
#73. Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Warren Spahn
#74. Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.
Louis C.K.
#75. I believe the greatness of a country is directly proportionate to what it pays attention to and the intrinsic value of that thing.
Daniel J. Muhlestein
#76. If you don't like the place where you find yourself, Waldemar, it pays to remember that you'll be somewhere else in just a moment. The place itself will be a different place.
John Wray
#77. It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
Alfred Douglas
#78. Patience Pays..Is true!
But the greater truth is that it takes
advance payment before it pays you in return!
Sujit Lalwani
#79. Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.
Nancy Gibbs
#80. What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
David Ogden Stiers
#81. Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
Nathan Fillion
#82. The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
Napoleon Hill
#83. courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people.
Janna Cachola
#84. When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates.
Jim Bankoff
#85. At the age of five or six I just used to kick the ball with both feet. I wasn't very good to start with but I practised and practised. Once I finally got it, it was an unbelievable sensation. It was then that I realised that if you work at something, it pays off.
Filo Tiatia
#86. I don't like reality television, but it pays so much money.
Pamela Anderson
#87. In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Warren Buffett
#88. When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.
Jean Chatzky
#89. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.
Dean Koontz
#90. The moment we find the reason behind an emotion ... the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.
Gloria Steinem
#91. Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.
Blaise Pascal
#92. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Julie Burchill
#93. The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
Elizabeth Bibesco
#94. I don't believe it pays to be a great author.
Jean Webster
#95. You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.
Charles Bukowski
#96. My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
Amy Hempel
#97. Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking.
It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day
to deliver your message with authority.
You should write one.
Seth Godin
Seth Godin
#98. The Claw smiled. You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard.
Steven Erikson
#99. The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.
John F. Kennedy
#100. Truth be told, the inward gaze is something she's not too fond of. But there are secrets that lurk in the mind, and she doesn't want any of them sneaking up on her. Sometimes it pays to take a deep look inside even if you get queasy gazing into those dark corners.
Alden Bell
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