Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel H. Pink

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

Daniel H. Pink

If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

Daniel Goleman

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

Daniel Goleman

Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

Daniel Goleman

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

Dan Barber

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

Dan Barber

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

Dan Barber

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Dan Ariely

If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.

Dan Ariely

While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

Dan Ariely

The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. … The good news is that by simply looking at something that somebody has done, scanning it and saying ‘uh huh,’ [you] dramatically improve people's motivations.

Dan Ariely

When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it — meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride.

Dan Ariely

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Coco Chanel

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Elia Kazan

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

B. C. Forbes

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

B. C. Forbes

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

B. C. Forbes

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Ashleigh Brilliant

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

Arthur Guiterman

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Armand Hammer

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Arabella Weir

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.

Ben Stein

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Ben Stein

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Bear Bryant

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

Bear Bryant

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Bear Bryant

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

Bear Bryant

Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.

Bear Bryant

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Barbara Corcoran

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

Barbara Corcoran

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

Barbara Corcoran

Failure is my specialty.