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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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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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
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In planes, everybody pees on the floor. Fact.
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Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
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Most of us cling to what’s familiar, which can stifle the possibility of spiritual growth. Trying to make something permanent often creates frustration and sadness because it’s not possible. What we hold on to as fixed is in reality always changing—like trees through the seasons.
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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.
