Dan Pink Quotes
Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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God saved my life.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.