“People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.” PeopleProcessCreativityCreativeAlivePaidRewardsMeaninglessCreative Process Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness
“The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.” PlayTurnsCommonCreativityRewardsSatisfactionMisusePersonal Satisfaction Author:Daniel H. Pink
“We can learn that reward comes in creation and re-creation, no just in the consumption of the world around us. Active participation in the process of creation is our right and our privilege. We can learn to measure the success of our ideas not by our bank accounts by their impact on the world.” WorldIdeasProcessCreativityDesignCreationAccountsImpactRewardsPrivilegeActiveConsumptionParticipationBank AccountsImpact On The WorldActive Participation Author:Tim Brown
“I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.” TwoLeftCreativityCollegeTheoryMonthsInnovationIndependenceCompetitionRewardsCuriosityConformityCollaborationApplicationSchooledTwo Months Author:Dale J. Stephens
“Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.” ArtPlayLossCreativityRewardsProfitPunishmentSpontaneityBlocked Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments dismal; it's a zero sum game, and its guarantor of value, its marker is that you pretend you play it solo, preserving the myth that you alone are the wellspring of your creativity.” PlayCharacterValuesGamesCreativityDramaRewardsMythPunishmentFantasticZeroSoloMarkersWellspringZero Sum Game Author:Tony Kushner
“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” IfsWayWantWritingHumansWellsArtSoulMatterStoriesHeavenGrowsParentCan DoHurtCreativityCreativeGayRewardsSakeRadioEnormousYour SoulNervesCreative ProcessShowersBearable Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.” IfsWayMindCreativitySubjectsRewardsExtraordinaryUnconsciousFriendlySooner Or LaterPersistentExtraordinary Things Author:John Cleese