1. Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.
2. Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
3. Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
4. The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
