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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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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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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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...
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We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.
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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.
