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The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Become Before Beings Bit Buried Cause Consistency Continuity Does Even Every First Human Human Beings Like Little Little Bit Maintaining Mass Mean Means Need Needs Our Perception Waste Dna

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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

~Dan Phillips

Topics: Because Beings Does Eat Group Groups Hang Human Human Beings Identify Just Like Lions Social Species Together Trying

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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Accurate Back Beings Choices Conscious Human Human Beings Mannerisms More Natural Other Perspective Posture Reflect Side Taking Those Word You

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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

~Dan Pink

Topics: About Axis Becomes Beings Each Economy Endlessly Fascinating Half Hours How Human Human Beings Incredible Just Least Made Other Our People Relate Spend Stuff Subject Things Think Variety Waking Who Whole Window Work Working Works World You

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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Behavior Beings Believe Carrot Clear Complicated Get Hold Human Human Beings Look Many More Motivates Motivation Moving Narrow Only Over Own People Pretty Promise Research Scrutinize Simply Stick Than Too Too Many People Us Very View Way Years You Your

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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Beings Best Best Work Conditions Control Giving Human Human Beings Important Kind Over People Some Work

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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Anew Beings Day Every Every Day Human Human Beings Learn Musicians Old Old Ways Saying Stick Think Us Ways World

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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

~Daniel H. Pink

Topics: Accurate Back Beings Choices Conscious Human Human Beings Mannerisms More Natural Other Perspective Posture Reflect Side Taking Those Word You

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We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.

~Daniel H. Wilson

Topics: Always Been Beings Body Coming Finally First First Time History Human Human Beings Hundred Inseparable Inside Make Moment Our Technology Thousand Thousand Years Time Were Where Years

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People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Beings Career Complex Complexity Fascinated Get Human Human Beings Know Life Lived My Life People Psychologist Very You

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