Teresa Amabile famous quotes

04-17-2025

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Winning #Accomplishment #Track
If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Leadership #Meaningful #Motivation
True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Passion #Creativity #Impossible
If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Leadership #Skills #Bored
The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Learning #Creativity #People
People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Gun #People #Creative
Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Motivation #People #Creative
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Believe #Moving #People
People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Time #Creativity #Fighting
Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Creativity #Thinking #Skills
Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Creativity #People #Groups
One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Creativity #One Day #Next
The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Successful #Organization #Ideas
To be creative, an idea must also be appropriateâ€”useful and actionable.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Ideas #Creative #Be Creative
The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Art #Creativity #Challenges
Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Creativity #Successful #Opportunity
People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Creativity #People #Creative
People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.
-- Teresa Amabile

#Work #Skills #People

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