Nonfinancial Quotes

#1. It is often possible to elicit the behavior you want through nonfinancial means.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. [R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.

Clay Shirky

#3. I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

Jewel

#4. The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Looking down at the Chinese officer who was trying to gather his entrails with his hands. Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.

Orson Scott Card

#6. Canary light of oil lamps

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

Georges St-Pierre

#8. What makes us human is not the recognition of fear but the ability to overcome it.

Kevin Colovos

#9. When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.

Jerry Spinelli

#10. There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#11. Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.
[Stating how planets supporting life cannot be rare.]

Harold Urey

#12. For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#13. He flashes a grin that is two parts death and one part humor.

Robin LaFevers

#14. The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process.
My mother was Dauntless.

Veronica Roth