Edward L. Deci Quotes

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

Edward L. Deci

#2. Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

Loudon Wainwright III

#3. she was always falling for the guys who promised her the moon and then delivered stinky cheese with a side of infidelity.

Ann Charles

#4. A fact about the world Millie knows for sure: Everyone knows everything about being born, and no one knows anything about being dead.

Brooke Davis

#5. The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas.

Gary Younge

#6. Families necessitate energetic concealment of the obvious, to be plain about it. To be in a family is to work strenuously to suppress the truth, for reasons I cannot determine, and the shadow, when it came, caused competing strategies in the family I occupied.

Ben Marcus

#7. People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

Natalie Portman

#8. I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Syd Barrett

#9. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

#10. Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...

Jane Austen

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

Daniel H. Pink

#12. Matters will not improve of their own accord.

Chris Oestereich

#13. Thinking too much about what happened and what is about to happen will wear you down. Live in the moment and take it one step at a time.

Howard E. Wasdin