Best Daniel H. Pink Sayings
- Experimentalists never know when their work is finished. Experimentalists
- The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Creative
- In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. All
- Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. Addictive
- One aspect of play is the importance of laughter, which has physiological and psychological benefits. Did you know that there are thousands of laughter clubs… All
- Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them. Ago
- Harness the power of peers. Harness
- Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another… Advice
- Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world.… Abilities
- Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question... 'So, what do you do? Always Ask
- It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday. All
- It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life. Animated
- The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work. Business
- What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of… Artist
- Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at… Ability
- We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions... In our serious… Called
- Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of… Bizarre
- Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon. Achievement
- The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run,… Antidote
- 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… Enjoyed
- Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. Autonomy
- While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply… Classroom
- One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must… Anxiety
- I say, 'Get me some poets as managers.' Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated… Believe