"Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity."

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Source : Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.29, Penguin

Daniel H. Pink

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“No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.”

Source : "Tim Cook channels Martin Luther King Jr. in speech to George Washington University graduates". www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2015.
“What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance.”
“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experienceâ€”it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press
“Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.”
“Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.”
“The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.”
“It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.”

Source : "Johansson changes her tune about monogamy". www.today.com. July 3, 2008.
“People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.”

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