Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you can sleep for me. We are absolutely all individuals. When our purpose is fulfilled, it feels beautiful. That is, to me, the feeling of fulfillment.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I do what I love to do, what I choose to do.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

I don't want to be somebody else.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Only the educated are free.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.