Best Motivations Sayings
94 Motivations quotes by 90 unique authors
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It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to…
— Dan Ariely
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I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have…
— Ginnifer Goodwin
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
— Arthur Erickson
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My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
— Enrique Iglesias
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going…
— Ron Silver
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With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
— John Sununu
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What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
— Linus Torvalds
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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our…
— Kevin DeYoung
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The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered…
— Henry B. Eyring
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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order…
— Clifford D. Simak
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The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian…
— Fritz Leiber
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and…
— Erich Fromm
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It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the…
— Nancy Pearcey
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The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music…
— Walter Isaacson
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We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so…
— Deb Caletti
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Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is…
— Wendy Mass
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We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo…
— Rajneesh
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Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in…
— Brian Tracy
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