Emotional Reward Quotes

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

It's one of the reasons you play football, to make people happy.

I am very rewarded and challenged in front of the camera.

It's a big pay off when I see a woman wearing my stuff. It's really gratifying.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

You are never the complete article but the feeling you get when people come up to you and say 'thank you for the great summer' and inspiring children is such a great feeling.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.

When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

That feeling in the dressing room after you win - nothing comes close to that. You can't get that in any other career. Maybe in the stock market back in the '80s when people were making tons of money, maybe they felt something similar. Maybe. But look at the market now. Nothing gives you that emotion like sports. Nothing. Am I wrong?

You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought this character to life, that's really rewarding. That's really cool.

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

My dogs are a priority and a big responsibility... but the payoffs are well worth it.

When you get guys coming up to you in clubs or restaurants or somewhere, and they say how much they've enjoyed your playing on records, then that pays off dividends every day; every time they say it, you think, 'I'm glad I did that.'

You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.

'Heavy Rain' was my baby, my reason to live, and my oxygen for four years. And seeing the successful release of the game has been the most extraordinary reward I could have dreamt of, after years of working in the dark.