Quotes About Bonus

#1. Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

Simon Sinek

#2. I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that you get paid is just a bonus

Katheryn Winnick

#3. Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

#4. At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

Philipp Meyer

#5. Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

Tana French

#6. My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

G. Willow Wilson

#7. You bite the bullet and get on with it. One can't expect to be happy all the time ... You expect to be happy, as if it's a right. It's not a right. It's a bonus. The cherry on the cake.

Santa Montefiore

#8. The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.

David Simon

#9. These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

John Lindsay

#10. The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

Billy Zane

#11. This was the bonus to liberal Christianity: I could use my reason and believe at the same time.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#12. I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point ... ?
Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked.
Expecto Patronum!
The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.

Lupita Nyong'o

#14. I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

Patricia Rozema

#15. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

Pankaj Mishra

#16. If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Freeman Dyson

#17. It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

Jack Hyles

#18. Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus." "Let us not make light of the rectally challenged." Niko disposed of the mug with disdain, wiping his hand thoroughly on a towel afterward. "The condition is no doubt congenital. Completely beyond his control.

Rob Thurman

#19. To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

Wayne Coyne

#20. Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.

Yukio Mishima

#21. I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.

Roger Deakin

#22. On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.

John Lanchester

#23. I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

Bo Derek

#24. If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

Geddy Lee

#25. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Carlos Wallace

#26. But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

Sally Pearson

#27. I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

Samantha Stosur

#28. Lights burn on the upper floors, traders and analysts letting commerce take precedence over family one more time in a desperate attempt to add to a Christmas bonus they won't have time to spend.

Nick Harkaway

#29. Style advice? Always wear clothes ... that are ... clean, for starters. An added bonus if it is pressed as well. Unless you are wearing clothes that are supposed to look rumpled.

Steve Carell

#30. Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.

Frederic Bastiat

#31. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Etgar Keret

#32. It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

Venus Williams

#33. Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

Hugh Jackman

#34. It's not just about young people - there are films being made that deal with women getting older. That's a huge bonus, and here in America, that's a huge step forward.

Lesley Manville

#35. There's an extra storey between the second and third floors of the Cloisters. (Penny calls it "bonus content.")

Rainbow Rowell

#36. You shouldn't rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

Stephen Hawking

#38. -I love you.
-You love me because I've made you feel safe?
-No, i'm very certain. I've loved you for a long time. The feeling safe,that's just a bonus. ~John & Arianna

Bernadette Marie

#39. Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.

Lori Foster

#40. Stay out there! Don't you dare come back in here with those evil mind tricks! (Simone)
Does it buy me any bonus points to note that you have a really nice looking ass? (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!

Ed Lauter

#42. The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Carol Grace

#43. I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

Katy Perry

#44. Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

Iain Duncan Smith

#45. The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

Phil Donahue

#46. Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

Randy Schekman

#47. The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

Aaron Neville

#48. The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

Mallory Ortberg

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Parveen Kumar

#50. Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

Donald Watson

#51. Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

Jeff Foxworthy

#52. The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

Brandy Norwood

#53. Just to love, that's enough; being loved, that's a bonus.

Jack Hyles

#54. There is no secret language, Future Sam, that you have to speak in order to talk to someone you like. You just talk to them. Bonus

Lara Avery

#55. I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

Esther Williams

#56. For me, it might sound cliche, but beauty for me really does start on the inside. It's like a state of mind, a state of love if you will. Then, whatever you can do on the outside is all like a bonus.

Queen Latifah

#57. Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

Lucas Grabeel

#58. In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#59. In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.

Stephen Colbert

#60. It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

Sarah Dessen

#61. Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Jason Mraz

#62. Any requests on the kind of car?"
"Something with armor?" she said. "Oooh, and headrest DVD. Bonus for surround sound."
"Rocket launchers," Michael said.
"One hot yellow Hummer with optional mass destruction package, coming up.

Rachel Caine

#63. I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

Cecelia Ahern

#64. I could tell myself that I'm doing it because she'll get back to her feet just to spite me - but the truth is, I really just want to piss her off. Keeping her moving is a bonus.

Amie Kaufman

#65. If the bonus army conquered Washington the lawyer had a boat hidden in the Sacramento River, and he was going to row upstream for a few months and then come back because they always needed lawyers after a revolution to straighten out all the legal side.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#66. My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers.

Michelle Dockery

#67. 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

#68. Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

#69. I hope I become a better player day after day. This is one of my goals. I want to improve in every situation, but when you are playing along with top figures, it is a quality bonus and a bigger effort. Besides, the Spanish Liga also gives you the chance to progress and improve.

David Beckham

#70. I try not to think of the future. What we have now is good. Any mlre of this is just a bonus. (Sergei)

Aleksandr Voinov

#71. What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.

Seth Godin

#72. The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

Karrie Webb

#73. An honest man is always a child.
[Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

Martial

#74. It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall.

Ashton Irwin

#75. I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.

Tim Vine

#76. I figure I already died last night when I was attacked, and this is all bonus time. Let me use it how I want,

Laurann Dohner

#77. I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

Daniel Marques

#78. One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.

Louise Hay

#79. Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

Randy Alcorn

#80. Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

Mike Myers

#81. I think I can safely say I am the only guy in NYC in possession of two cocks. Is that a bonus or what?

Jodi Knight

#82. Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

Mark Twain

#83. If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?

Gordon Klingenschmitt

#84. I'm just looking forward to playing, and if anything else comes my way it's a bonus. I'm looking to have an injury-free season and doing things for Lancashire to get us where we belong.

Stuart Law

#85. She'll have to help him with the bonus poops, and Tommy Swinden, and all the other little things that Max can't do because he lives so much of his life inside. That big, beautigul inside that once imagined me.

Matthew Dicks

#86. I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!

Niecy Nash

#87. As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.

Terry Pratchett

#88. You're being paid a lot of money to maintain a distorted view of reality, but you don't notice the tricks that your big bonus plays on your perception of reality.

Dan Ariely

#89. Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus.

J.K. Rowling

#90. Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#91. During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus.

Michel Patini

#92. I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.

Bill Bailey

#93. That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Parminder Nagra

#94. The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued ... I've been lucky, I guess.

Padma Lakshmi

#95. My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Robert Cormier

#96. I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

Oren Peli

#97. There's no bonus to seeing life through a dirty lens, even if it feels more real.

Sally Hanan

#98. Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.

Meryl Streep

#99. My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Zosia Mamet

#100. Yoko Ono is someone who's music I've discovered more recently. The current cd rereleases of her albums all had bonus tracks recorded just with a tape recorder and I'm really into these at the moment because they have a great intimate feel.

Marcel Dzama