Amabile Quotes

#1. When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

Teresa Amabile

#2. One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

Teresa Amabile

#3. The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether
it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

Teresa Amabile

#4. Never try to pull someone up who doesn't want it ... they'll just pull you down.

T. Harv Eker

#5. How had this gorgeous guy flown under the radar? And a better question, why wasn't he out on the dance floor?

Kindle Alexander

#6. The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

Teresa Amabile

#7. People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

Teresa Amabile

#8. Ironically, the more obsessed we are with our selves, the more we neglect our souls.

John Ortberg

#9. True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Teresa Amabile

#10. Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

Teresa Amabile

#11. People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

Teresa Amabile

#12. And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

Steven Erikson

#13. Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

Bunker Roy

#14. Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile have found that external rewards and punishments - both carrots and sticks - can work nicely for algorithmic tasks. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.

Daniel H. Pink

#15. Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

Teresa Amabile

#16. The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

Teresa Amabile

#17. It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Evelyn Waugh

#18. People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

Teresa Amabile

#19. I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Joyce Cary

#20. If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

Teresa Amabile

#21. To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

Teresa Amabile

#22. When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#23. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

Teresa Amabile

#24. If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

Teresa Amabile

#25. I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.

Ming-Na Wen

#26. Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

Teresa Amabile

#27. What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

Paul Gascoigne

#28. People are the least creative when fighting the clock ... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

Teresa Amabile