Deci Quotes

#1. Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation BY EDWARD L. DECI WITH RICHARD FLASTE

Daniel H. Pink

#2. They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.

Edward L. Deci

#3. I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.

Lisa P. Jackson

#5. It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Ralph Linton

#6. Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.

Helen Oyeyemi

#7. Don't say I gotta do anything in life. There is nothing you gotta do. But I want to.

Moe Norman

#8. She radiated a kind of excitement, the possibility of infinite promise. It wasn't just me. Most people seemed to feel that spending time with Susan would be an adventure.

Robert B. Parker

#9. Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true.

R.A. Mathis

#10. Love doesn't always come barreling down on you like a train engine. Sometimes it sneaks up on you like spring overtaking winter. The chill winds begin to warm and suddenly the trees have leaves and the flowers are blooming.

Ann H. Gabhart

#11. Pain is inevitable, but misery is a choice,

Catherine Leggitt

#12. And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

James M. Barrie

#13. We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

The Rev

#14. I use the word "man" loosely. A better description would be "the most beautiful specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens with a set of XY chromosomes to grace the planet Earth at this moment, or any other era, epoch, or age in history.

Elle Lothlorien

#15. 2013 will be the year I read more! and more!

Janet Horn