"In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right."

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Daniel H. Pink

#Leadership Quotes #Mind Quotes #Economic Quotes

“My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a ward of the county. I think my father was okay about my going into journalism, though.”
“She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.”
“Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisationâ€™s problems, and then change how they act.”

Source : "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.
“We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.”
“I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.”
“As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.”
“[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.”

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