However, she declares: "Perseverance does pay off".
Occasionally, reading does pay off handsomely.
"Vigilance does pay off," Makhijani said.
Fiscal discipline does pay off, so pardon us if we take exception to your view of "the Indiana exception".
One idea that does pay off is the casting of a young male actor, Chris New, as Viola.
He shows his music students Laurel and Hardy films because the gags, which develop over many minutes, as a symphony does, "pay off big".
"By placating Dodik, the message that the E.U. is sending to all Bosnians is that radicalism does pay off and compromise is a show of weakness".
Planning really does pay off in terms of return on input in our marketing - far more than this time last year.
Today has proven to me that hard work and self belief really does pay off," said the 28-year-old from Bangor in Northern Ireland.
I think of the proud Pakistani parents who, after their daughter was invited to the White House, wrote to us, "We have raised an American Muslim daughter to dream big and never give up because it does pay off".
This quest does pay off, in a manner of speaking: by the novel's close both Cole and the reader fully understand the world from which he emerged, and what dread promise it holds.
