Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I only really work when I want to.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

I'm very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don't really need that from outside.

I like pressure. I put in on myself, and I think I get the best out of myself by doing that.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I am not driven.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.

Stay focused and stay determined. Don't look to anyone else to be your determination - have self-determination. It will take you very far.

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

Motivation should come from within each player; if not, it's difficult to get results.

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.