Dan Pink
Related DEYTH BANGER There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No... RIZ AHMED RACHEL MADDOW YANN MARTEL Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're makin... CHUBBY CHECKER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON SADE ADU ADRIANNE PALICKI When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ... DAN PINK CHRISTINE GREGOIRE But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You kno... KATIE COURIC SAM YAGAN When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing... JOE ARPAIO CRAIG GROESCHEL BEN CARSON LETITIA BALDRIGE TALIB KWELI I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and ... JAMES FRAIN ELI BROAD CHRIS ROCK EVAN DAVIS LOUIS C. K. MORTIMER ADLER You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m... AMAURY NOLASCO NANCY PELOSI I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences... JAMIE JOHNSON I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally i... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN LESLIE MOONVES Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh... CLIVE THOMPSON I like to act with people that know what they're doing. ED HARRIS Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People per... DAVE DEBRONKART You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom... LESLEY MANVILLE EARL WARREN Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and ... ALEX GRAVES I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a... ALEXI GIANNOULIAS CHRISTOPHER GUEST When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you'r... TYLER JOSEPH MARK ZUCKERBERG When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're ... ERIC S. RAYMOND BERNIE SIEGEL CRAIG GROESCHEL ANGELA DUCKWORTH MARY-KATE OLSEN I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try ... MARCIA CLARK I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they'... SALLY KIRKLAND Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask,... TRAVIS BRADBERRY GEORGE TAKEI NATHAN MYHRVOLD Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out ... ZACK GREINKE By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all t... RICK DANKO Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do b... TOM T. HALL Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is the... ROBERT MCCHESNEY DEYTH BANGER You're a hero one day, you're a villain another day. They say that's football. When a ma... VINCENT TAN Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one... DAVID RABE A. S. BYATT We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back a... NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They'r... BENNY BLANCO When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or ... ERIK GRIFFIN If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're... DAN PINK I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they&#... BENJAMIN WALKER A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing. TRAVIS BARKER When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's ve... PATTON OSWALT CHER RICHARD BRANSON ROBERT REDFORD LARRY THE CABLE GUY AYELET WALDMAN MORRIE SCHWARTZ KEN ROBINSON If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a p... FELICITY JONES When you're doing a Motley Crue tribute record, you can ask anyone to do it, and they're not... DARIUS RUCKER When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their... KRISTY SWANSON Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t... LOU RAWLS I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences... JAMIE JOHNSON I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famo... NOLAN NORTH MASAYOSHI SON My family aren't performers. They're just normal people. They don't understand this ente... JAY RYAN ELON MUSK In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's somethi... DWIGHT SCHULTZ JOHN CUSACK In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ... KREAYSHAWN I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing t... DANNY PUDI JOHN LASSETER There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their ... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI VIRGINIA WOOLF CHRISTOPHER MELONI KENNETH BRANAGH The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS TOM LANDRY ELLEN ULLMAN KEVIN SPACEY A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person. KALI HAWK CHRIS PINE Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it b... O'SHEA JACKSON, JR. Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when the... BILL SIMMONS DAVE EGGERS WALTER KIRN Average people get to school late; they're average. They barely do their school work. ERIC D. THOMAS I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to d... HUSSEIN CHALAYAN
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ... DAN PINK Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise. DAN PINK It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a ... DAN PINK When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I,... DAN PINK If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex i... DAN PINK I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they ... DAN PINK The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say. DAN PINK I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They wan... DAN PINK I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. DAN PINK It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, ha... DAN PINK Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get ... DAN PINK When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions a... DAN PINK Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, m... DAN PINK My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer... DAN PINK We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to... DAN PINK The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean,... DAN PINK Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, pove... DAN PINK The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills t... DAN PINK Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebod... DAN PINK If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent sale... DAN PINK If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're... DAN PINK Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very bes... DAN PINK Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the ... DAN PINK I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that ch... DAN PINK I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your... DAN PINK In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the br... DAN PINK Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people'... DAN PINK Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at somethin... DAN PINK All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apa... DAN PINK Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two ... DAN PINK With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book... DAN PINK I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a c... DAN PINK A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In ... DAN PINK If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're givi... DAN PINK The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay p... DAN PINK The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're m... DAN PINK Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their b... DAN PINK I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump... DAN PINK Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're t... DAN PINK To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create so... DAN PINK Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showi... DAN PINK For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way. DAN PINK I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of tryi... DAN PINK If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of... DAN PINK In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive the... DAN PINK Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do. DAN PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was ... ARIEL PINK We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meani... ARIEL PINK I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know ... ARIEL PINK I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with ... ARIEL PINK I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part... ARIEL PINK I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Fred... ARIEL PINK PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i... ARIEL PINK I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can b... ARIEL PINK My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not... ARIEL PINK PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events. ARIEL PINK I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. I... ARIEL PINK Shallow people have the depth of a puddle in the Sahara on a very hot day KAZ PINK My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me. SAM PINK I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of ma... ARIEL PINK PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD As we tiptoe through the tulips, sometimes it helps to wear big boots! KAZ PINK The real path to immortality is not by way of Nirvanah or heaven, it's the quotes that you're quoted... KAZ PINK PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything. ARIEL PINK I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. ... ARIEL PINK People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy. ARIEL PINK 155Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing someth... SAM PINK Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something... SAM PINK Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many. RANDI PINK PINK FLOYD DANIEL H. PINK Feast of the Holy Innocents Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not bor... A. W. PINK Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Nothing is too great and nothing... A. W. PINK Feast of All Saints From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still l... A. W. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK Feast of Michael & All Angels None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful wor... ARTHUR W. PINK ...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He di... ARTHUR W. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK DANIEL H. PINK
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I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they... 
My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, h... 
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer. 
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though the... 
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Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why the... 
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As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to... 
I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first... 
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Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and f... 
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One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they... 
There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, o... 
Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, thro... 
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Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're... 
There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they... 
When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move int... 
What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk lik... 
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body im... 
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're bus... 
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All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races,... 
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward... 
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than... 
It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what y... 
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'... 
Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulder... 
It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no ... 
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to;... 
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq,... 
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits. 
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is. 
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall. 
If you should go skating
On the thin ice of modern life
Dragging behind you the silent reproach
Of a... 
If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d... 
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Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately... 
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people wi... 