Teresa Amabile Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I was so blue that I felt I'd turned black inside.

Dawn French

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

Teresa Amabile

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

Teresa Amabile

#5. A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

Mikhail Bakunin

#6. A freshman has only about 25% of his degree completed. They go off to play professional basketball, and to assume they will come back and get the degree done five, six, seven years later, I don't see that happening.

Steve Alford

#7. 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

#8. No great difference at all, perhaps. Was my future any more certain than hers? And did I not depend for my life upon a man bound to me - at least in part - by desire of my body? A

Diana Gabaldon

#9. Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Janet Frame

#10. I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

Rick Pitino

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.

Sandra Bullock

#14. 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

#15. The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.

Frans De Waal

#16. My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Sadie Jones

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

Teresa Amabile

#18. What Im trying to say is that what makes you up, its always been around, and it always will be around. So really the only thing you should worry about is the part you're at right now. Where you got a body and a head and all that bullshit. Just worry about living, dying is the easy part.

Justin Halpern

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

Teresa Amabile

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

Teresa Amabile

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

Teresa Amabile

#22. 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

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

Teresa Amabile

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

Teresa Amabile

#25. Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.

Rachel Carson

#26. 'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

Meghan O'Rourke

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

Teresa Amabile

#28. 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

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

Teresa Amabile

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

Teresa Amabile