Daniel H. Pink Quotes

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

Daniel H. Pink

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Live
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Water

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Power
  • Superhero
  • Days

• My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Think
  • Daughter
  • Suits

• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Done
  • Better
  • Identity

• Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Angry

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • She
  • Problem
  • English

• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Thought
  • U.S.

• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Quality
  • Things
  • Volatility

• I'm always honest.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Always
  • Honest

• I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • First

• I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Technology
  • Focus
  • Right

• Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!

  

  Candace Kita
  • Good
  • Great
  • Acting

• I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Crazy

• Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Good
  • Focus

• I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Long

• There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

  

  Chris Cubas

• I had massive admiration for lots of players. Richard Hill would be up there, along with Martin Johnson.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Players
  • Admiration
  • Richard Hill

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Heart

• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Business

• Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • Motivational