Motivations Quotes
94 quotes by 90 authors
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Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit…
— Meb Keflezighi
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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every…
— Dannion Brinkley
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It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind…
— Richard Courant
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Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same.…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small…
— Gustav Nossal
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The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow…
— Lloyd Dobyns
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Regardless of anyone's dietary motivations, the healthiest lifestyle is the one that's most compassionate.
— Steve-O
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I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the…
— Lynn Flewelling
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead…
— Alan Dean Foster
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Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for…
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be…
— Timothy Keller
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Existence permeates sexuality and vice versa, so that it is impossible to determine, in a given decision or action, the proportion of sexual to other…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school,…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations…
— Didier Eribon
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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental…
— Andrew Solomon
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Praise and reward create a system of extrinsic motivations for behavior. Children (and adults) end up taking action in order to receive the praise or…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.
— Caroline Myss
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Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you consciousness. If you…
— Jay Maisel
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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.
— Brandon Sanderson
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