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By neglecting the ingredients of genuine motivation – autonomy, mastery, and purpose – they limit what each of us can achieve.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

…people oriented toward autonomy and intrinsic motivation have higher self-esteem, better interpersonal relationships, and greater general well-being than those who are extrinsically motivated.

…partners, like all of us, need to direct their own lives.

…while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to be a human concept rather than a western one.

A sense of autonomy has a powerful effect on individual performance and attitude.

…autonomous motivation promotes greater conceptual understanding, better grades, enhanced persistence…, higher productivity, less burnout, and greater levels of psychological well-being.

Most twenty-first-century notions of management presume that, in the end, people are pawns rather than players.

…management isn’t the solution; it’s the problem.

…intrinsic behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T’s: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.