"It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives."

-- Bruno Frey

#People Quotes #Incentives Quotes #Motivated Quotes

“As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.”
“It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.”
“I had an awful joke about Auschwitz I drove everybody crazy with that joke. But that joke makes me feel good. You know what "cuit" means? When something is cooked. It's a joke like that: "What are the birds doing when they fly over Auschwitz? 'Cuit! Cuit!'" It's awful, but it's desacralizing. For me, it's good.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.”
“Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.”
“I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The Soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly like-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution, left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry for about a week in the bedroom.”
“I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.”
“Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

Source : "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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