Best Motivations Quotes
94 Motivations quotes by 90 unique authors
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If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions,…
— Teresa Amabile
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
— Gary Becker
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The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's…
— Jacqueline Susann
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The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the…
— James Altucher
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
— Yuliya Snigir
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Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.
— Jefferson Smith
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The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science
— Susan Wojcicki
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It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step.…
— Paul Bourget
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How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
— Alistair Begg
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I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own…
— Bernard Baruch
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Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally…
— Stefan Kieszling
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I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as…
— Timothy McVeigh
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The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies…
— Terence McKenna
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There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help…
— Walter E. Williams
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In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for…
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I…
— Lev Yilmaz
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One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I…
— Meg Cabot
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
— Russell Banks
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You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and…
— Hank Azaria
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I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
— Ken Follett
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Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game…
— Christopher Bollen
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But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck…
— Greg Bear
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Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
— Steve Jobs
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Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
— Adam Rayner
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