Daniel H. Pink Quotes

Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

A calling is the most satisfying form of work because, as gratification, it is done for its own sake rather than for the material benefits it brings,

He preserved the union and freed the slaves.

There's no going back. Pay your son to take out the trash - and you've pretty much guaranteed the kid will never do it again for free.

That's why Linux and Wikipedia and Firefox work.

Harness the power of peers.

Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question ... 'So, what do you do?

Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

ultimately, open source depends on intrinsic motivation with the same ferocity that older business models rely on extrinsic motivation,

Wikipedia's triumph seems to defy the laws of behavioral physics.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art. - TWYLA THARP

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

Researchers have found that extraversion has no statistically significant relationship . . . with sales performance

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.

Empathy is an essential part of living a life of meaning.

Business writer Polly LaBarre notes, The United States spends more on trash bags than ninety other countries spend on everything.

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes BY ALFIE KOHN

Being a professional," Julius Erving once said, "is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them."16

But if you instead ask, "Can I make a great pitch?" the research has found that you provide yourself something that reaches deeper and lasts longer

In just three years, Kickstarter surpassed the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts as the largest backer of arts projects in the United States.9

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD Pressfield's

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

It is springtime and I am blind ... Clarity depends on contrast - 134

A "grouplet" - a small, self-organized team that has almost no budget and even less authority, but that tries to change something within the company.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success BY CAROL DWECK

Change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources - not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

Were born to be players, not pawns.

Chapter 6 will explore purpose, our yearning to contribute and to be part of something larger than ourselves.

Sudbury Valley School. Take a look at this independent school in Framingham, Massachusetts,

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

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find what drives us

ingredients of genuine motivation - autonomy, mastery, and purpose - they

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

This is what it means to serve: improving another's life and, in turn, improving the world.

Clarity depends on contrast. In

Rewards do not undermine people's intrinsic motivation for dull tasks because there is little or no intrinsic motivation to be undermined.

If you believed in the "mediocrity of the masses," as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could achieve.

Pitches that rhyme are more sublime.

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn.

Nobody "manages" the open source contributors.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

The ability to move others to exchange what they have for what we have is crucial to our survival and our happiness. It

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.

The right brain is finally being taken seriously.

Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation BY EDWARD L. DECI WITH RICHARD FLASTE

So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Design - that is, utility enhanced by significance - has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

Today it's economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

Have you ever seen a six-month-old or a three-year-old who's not curious and self-directed? I haven't. That's how we are out of the box.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain ... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

motivators" - things like enjoyment of the work itself, genuine achievement, and personal growth.

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

Identifying problems as a way to move others takes two

When the reward is the activity itself
deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best
there are no shortcuts.

The Reggio Emilia philosophy for the education of young children and the Waldorf schools.