Dan Pink quote: "If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself."

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ...
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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It's concerning to me when people look at the course of education as just a means for getting a ...
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I,...
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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they ...
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They wan...
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, ha...
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get ...
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When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions a...
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, m...
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer...
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to...
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean,...
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, pove...
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills t...
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebod...
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent sale...
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're...
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very bes...
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Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the ...
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that ch...
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I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your...
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the br...
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people'...
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at somethin...
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All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apa...
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two ...
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book...
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a c...
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A lot of times, when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In ...
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If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're givi...
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay p...
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're m...
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they...
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their b...
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump...
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're t...
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create so...
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showi...
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For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.
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I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of tryi...
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of...
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive the...
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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.
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Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq,...
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Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.
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Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
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I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too.
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There's something about breaking up with someone - you just look hotter than you ever did before...
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Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore...
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My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion ...
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The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and no...
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Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personal...
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My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You m...
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Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on ...
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Sage is cleansing and sacred.
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I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel ...
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I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.
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I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in musi...
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There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.
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The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or say...
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I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one ...
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Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get ...
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I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-...
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I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind...
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When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.
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Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that ...
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People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secon...
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I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.
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Safari in the Park
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I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something...
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My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
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I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs ...
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I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
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She's got a big button let's push hers!
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We did what we set out to do, ... We preserved history.
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For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary, ... Sometim...
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The Dark Side of the Moon
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I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute
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I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did...
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I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
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I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot...
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[When she interviewed Matt Damon]Is there anything you want me to ask you, besides your phone number...
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Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.
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She's got a big button — let's push hers!
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I find it interesting that these same few people that signed the petition are willing to let the cit...
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Power is devolving,
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A 1999 Lou Harris survey of 1,000 self-employed Americans and small entrepreneurs found that money w...
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For me, there is only love and fear.
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I'm kind of psychotic and I like to talk about things. I'm a Virgo, too, so I like to analyz...
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My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.
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You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
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'Sexy' doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.
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The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
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I think it's a shame that the Government declined funding, after so many risked their lives for this...
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I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
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I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That...
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I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, ve...
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It's about time we find a cure, ... It's terrifying. Every three minutes a woman in the U.S. is diag...
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We'll probably rattle some hipster braincases, ... That's my prediction.
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Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall.
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If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
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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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I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
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How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ...
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There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
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There's someone in my head but it's not me.
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And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry a...
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I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was ...
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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meani...
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I do get credit for having a California sound to my music, but I don't think people really know ...
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno...
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The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with ...
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I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part...
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I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Fred...
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When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it wa...
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How I wish, how I wish you were here...We're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowl,Year after y...
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Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i...
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I had a very active inner life as a kid. There's a good album or two worth of stuff that I can b...
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My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not...
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Wish You Were Here"

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain....
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Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
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Money, it's a gas,
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How could you treat me this way?Running away.I need you, Babe.Why are you running away?
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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
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Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
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Is There Anybody Out There?
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Encumbered forever by desire and ambition, There's a hunger still unsatisfied, Our weary eyes still ...
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Dark Side of the Moon,
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There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
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You'd Better Run.....run like hell
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The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.
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Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is m...
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...And then one day you'll find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you mis...
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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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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. I...
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Shallow people have the depth of a puddle in the Sahara on a very hot day
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My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.
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I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of ma...
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On her way to a Marilyn Manson concert
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And if I show you my dark side will you still hold me tonight and if I open my heart to you and show...
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Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You're gonna go far, fly high, You're never gonna die, You're ...
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Now wakes the hour Now sleeps the swan Behold the dream The dream is gone
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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...
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Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.Mother's gonna p...
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All and All your just another brick in the wall.
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There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
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For long you live and high you fly But only if you ride the tide And balanced on the biggest wave Yo...
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A cloud of eiderdown Draws around me Softening a sound. Sleepy time, and I lie, With my love by my s...
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Money, is a crime.
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Back Against the Wall
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Through the fish eyed lense of tear stained eyes, i can barely define the shape of this moment in ti...
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All you touch and all you see, Is all your life will ever be.
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Eyes are saucers to the soul.
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Wish You Were Here,
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All that you touch All that you see All that you taste All you feel.
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You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years ...
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Now there's a look in your eyes, Like black holes in the sky.
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And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry a...
PINK FLOYD

If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
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Was it love? Or was it the idea of being in love?
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In a world we need to share, it's not enough to stand and stare.
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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain.
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So, so you think you can tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field fro...
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What shall we use To fill the empty spaces Where we used to talk?How shall I fill The final places?H...
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Long you live and high you'll fly and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry and all you touch and ...
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Hey you, out there in the coldGetting lonely, getting old Can you feel me?Hey you, standing in the a...
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I will always be here...I will always look out from behind these eyes...It's only a lifetime, It's o...
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I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
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I don't want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just don't know any better. ...
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People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.
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155Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing someth...
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Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it’s never after accomplishing something...
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Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.
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You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten y...
PINK FLOYD

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. An...
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Feast of the Holy Innocents Though Christ a thousand times In Bethlehem be born, If he's not bor...
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Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012 Nothing is too great and nothing...
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Feast of All Saints From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still l...
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Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately...
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Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with hi...
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The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people wi...
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Feast of Michael & All Angels None but the Lord himself can afford us any help from the awful wor...
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...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He di...
ARTHUR W. PINK

Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'...
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I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive f...
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What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empa...
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Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways....
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In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you ...
DANIEL H. PINK

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to t...
DANIEL H. PINK

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They wan...
DANIEL H. PINK

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out ...
DANIEL H. PINK

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean,...
DANIEL H. PINK

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, m...
DANIEL H. PINK

Motivation 1.0 presumed that humans were biological creatures, struggling to obtain our basic needs ...
DANIEL H. PINK

Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employ...
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

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