It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key player on a team that is achieving something meaningful.

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

It is no fun at all to have been writing a book for seven or so years, especially when you've never published anything before.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.