Daniel H. Pink Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Daniel H. Pink
Daniel H. Pink Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Daniel H. Pink on Wise Famous Quotes.
Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.
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,
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.
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,
Researchers have found that extraversion has no statistically significant relationship . . . with sales performance
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
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.
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.
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.
Chapter 6 will explore purpose, our yearning to contribute and to be part of something larger than ourselves.
The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN
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.
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.
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.
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.
Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.
So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.
Design - that is, utility enhanced by significance - has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success
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.