Quotes About Carrot And Stick

#1. Carrot-and-stick reinforcement' the behaviorists are telling us is needed for this bird to carry out these operations, thirteen different types of construction jobs? B. F. Skinner did a very good thing: in World War

William Peter Blatty

#2. There are times when players have got to feel that if they work hard and they give everything, they get the carrot, but they also need to know that there's a stick. If performance, discipline or attitude isn't good enough, there is a bit of the stick and there will be a punishment.

Warren Gatland

#3. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

#4. The British welfare state, it seemed, had removed the incentives without which a capitalist economy simply could not function: the carrot of serious money for those who strove, the stick of hardship for those who slacked.

Niall Ferguson

#5. Fathers, on the other hand, were there to toughen children up, to say Walk it off when mothers would hold them if they fell. Mothers were the carrot. Fathers were the stick.

Noah Hawley

#6. Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. I decide this day with Chase Gartner
my friend, my maybe-possibility
is the best one yet.

S.R. Grey

#8. People are familiar with 'the stick' of the Tea Party ... challenging incumbents, flooding the phone lines. What they're not so much familiar with, and what I want to expand, is 'the carrot.' So when a Mitch McConnell, or when a Republican caucus stands firm ... we have to reward them.

Niger Innis

#9. The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

Al Gore

#10. The poet Rumi said that "the price of kissing is your life." He was right, and he was offering us a carrot. What he did not mention is the stick: that the price of not kissing is your miserable unkissed life.

Anne Benvenuti

#11. Only 3 percent of people in the DRC use condoms.

Amy Lockwood

#12. Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

#13. Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked.

Alison Weir

#14. Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

Nick Rahall

#15. Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it.

Craig Venter

#16. I feel like a donkey, with a stick in my mouth and a carrot up my ass.

Anton Chekhov

#17. The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. The carrot and the stick are prevasive and persuasive motivators. But if you treat people like donkeys, they will perform like donkeys.

John Whitmore

#19. The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.

J.J. Abrams

#20. Glitch was about as wild and unpredictable as a carrot stick.

Darynda Jones

#21. We could survive the worst, doesn't it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best?

V.C. Andrews

#22. There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

Layne Staley

#23. Someday Isle is not a dream vacation spot.
It is an imaginary destination to which you will never arrive.
It is the carrot on the stick perpetually in front of you.
So close you can see it, yet you will never reach it.
Don't vacation on Someday Isle.

Frank F. Lunn

#24. Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Winston Churchill

#25. We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.

Otto Von Bismarck

#26. The cell phone companies add to the problem. Every one they give out, they get money for from the federal government. So they have an incentive to give as many away as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing, and they're making a killing.

Timothy Griffin

#27. The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing to the white, the white will make life miserable for him. The

John Howard Griffin

#28. Hope is a carrot tied to the stick of tomorrow.

Dan Groat

#29. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.

D.R. Silva