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.
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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.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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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.
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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.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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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.
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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.
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Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
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I'm always honest.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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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.
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Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!
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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.'
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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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I learned long ago you run unopposed, or you run scared.
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For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
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If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
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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.
