Kool Keith Quotes

Perhaps I should just motivate myself by buying trophy cabinets - so I have to fill them.

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

I've always been a person who is driven.

I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.

All we can do is apply the physical stimuli which we have at our disposal to bring about a change of mind in these recalcitrant persons. Of this you may be sure: we shall continue to operate on the Italian donkey at both ends, with a carrot and a stick.

I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.

If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

I am a compulsive shopaholic.

I love giving myself and my clients gold stars every day that they've completed a workout - it feels really good.

I get bored of carrying the same bag often. So, I end up buying more.

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about.

It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.