Dan Pink Quotes
Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.Dan Pink
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
Ian Axel -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael -
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi -
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul -
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
Irving Thalberg
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
Adam Hamilton -
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
Madison Pettis -
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion -
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Ovid
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift -
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman -
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
Kate Millett -
Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
Hal Sparks -
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Orlando Bloom
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
Adam Grant -
It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
Andrew Breitbart -
I think Americans want to believe in this country again.
Carol Moseley Braun -
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Until 2005, I still thought of my surf lifesaving career as fulltime and kayaking as a pastime. I watched the 2004 Athens Olympics and saw people racing that I knew I could beat, and that was probably the turning point: I decided I should either do it properly or stop wasting time kayaking and concentrate fully on Ironman.
Ken Wallace -
Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
Dan Pink