Although traditional incentives such as bonuses or recognition can prod people to better performance, no external motivators can get people to perform at their absolute best. . . . Wherever people gravitate within their work roles, indicates where their real pleasure lies—and that pleasure is itself motivating.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
