Quotes About Intrinsic

what matters is not just how motivated someone is but the source and nature of that motivation.13

rewards, like punishments, actually undermine the intrinsic motivation that promotes optimal performance.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

Baseball has been something that's always been in my blood. It was just something I was bound to do no matter what. I was going to play baseball.

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

I am not a saleable commodity.

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.

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

The end has to come from within.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

Self-worth is not created; it is discovered.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Por vezes, penso que a esperança não pertence unicamente a cada um, que existe como um éter que se infiltra dentro de nós no momento do nascimento. in Meia-Noite ou O Princípio do Mundo.

Your value is not determined by your valuables

Your value doesn't come from the clothes you wear, a number on a scale, your career, or your success with a health plan on any given day. You are of immense value because God made you.

Music (is) woven into the fabric of the corporeal world.

What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.