Intrinsic motivation Quote by Daniel H. Pink

“Careful consideration of reward effects reported in 128 experiments lead to the conclusion that tangible rewards tend to have a substantially negative effect on…

— Daniel H. Pink

“Intrinsic motivation is of great importance for all economic activities. It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.”

— Daniel H. Pink

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

— W. Edwards Deming

Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test…

— Albert Einstein

“If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round. Unless…

— Steven Kotler

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

— Daniel H. Pink

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

— Thomas Nagel

“assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work—his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy—and replaced it with external motivation and coercion,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation…

— Allie Brosh

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

— Denis Waitley

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

— Anonymous

“don’t do things because they are easy. Nothing done with that motivation is worth doing. There are rare times in our lives when we…

— Wes Moore