Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. - Daniel H. Pink - Quotesmemo.com

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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

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Daniel H. Pink

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. . . . But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

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The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

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The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

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For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

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Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

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