Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

just throw away all thoughts ofimaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings.

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?

Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."