Book Titles

A Whole New Mind
Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

By Daniel Pink

Year Published: 2005
ISBN-13: 978-1573223089
Categories: Brains, Creativity, Thinking

48 Quotes Found

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A Whole New Mind:

What’s in greatest demand today isn’t analysis but synthesis – seeing the big picture, crossing boundaries, and being able to combine disparate pieces into an arresting new whole.

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A Whole New Mind:

…to much sobriety can be bad for your career and worse for your general well-being. In the Conceptual Age, in work and in life, we all need to play.

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A Whole New Mind:

The wealth of nations and the well-being of individuals now depend on having artists in the room.

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A Whole New Mind:

In a world enriched by abundance but disrupted by the automation and outsourcing of white-collar work, everyone, regardless of profession, must cultivate an artistic sensibility… today we must all be designers.

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A Whole New Mind:

Design – that is, utility enhanced by significance – has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success…

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A Whole New Mind:

From the moment some guy in a loincloth scraped a rock against a piece of flint to create an arrowhead, human beings have been designers.

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A Whole New Mind:

Indeed, one of design’s most potent economic effects is this very capacity to create new markets…

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A Whole New Mind:

Good design can change the world. (And so, alas, can bad design.)

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A Whole New Mind:

Good design, now more accessible and affordable than ever, also offers us a chance to bring pleasure, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

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A Whole New Mind:

…most important, cultivating a design sensibility can make our small planet a better place for us all.

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