"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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Source : "The puzzle of motivation". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

Daniel H. Pink

#Motivation Quotes #Block Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".”
“It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?”
“The truth is never pure and rarely simple.”
“Play against the Game, not your opponent.”
“Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan
“I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.”
“Max Weber and Vladimir Lenin say, in almost identical words, that with regard to the use of force the state is always a dictatorship.”
“We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.”

Source : "Symbolic Logic". book by John Venn, 1881.

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