"In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it"

-- Marcus Buckingham

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“There is just something that people taught me in general for self-care, would just be to spend some time alone and to protect yourself. Learning to say no is something that helps in that, and what you're comfortable with and what you're not comfortable with, and finding the line. That's it. Otherwise it's just going to be really hard.”
“I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.”
“The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.”
“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.”
“My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.”
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”
“It's like, are you kidding me? I'd sell way more if I just put a picture of my face. That's the fact. I'd sell more copies of me just looking cute. That's what sells more. That's what sells at Wal-Mart. Not someone in a bathtub looking like they're about to kill someone. Topless.”

Source : "Q&A: Sky Ferreira Opens Up About Her Tumultuous Year And Long-Delayed Debut Album". Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.stereogum.com. October 16, 2013.

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