Dan Pink
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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 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 There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they... 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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