Motivation Quote by Ellen Ullman

“Experience taught me how invaluable it is to reflect on and write down my decision-making criteria whenever I made a decision, so I got…

— Ray Dalio

“Our motivations thus influence our beliefs through the subtle ways we choose a comforting pattern from the fabric of evidence.”

— Thomas Gilovich

“A choice was presented to you, and you chose to act on your own desire regardless of the consequences”

— Travis Bagwell

“Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried,…

— Joseph Heller

“The only way to determine genuine motivation and/or intent is to observe the behavior of an individual.”

— Rollo Tomassi

“You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.”

— Grant Von Harrison

“You must give up your desire for someone to tell you your choices were correct in the end.”

— F.C. Yee

“I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always…

— Jonna Ivin

“It required a strong effort to abstract her thoughts from other interests sufficiently to attend to this, but she was rewarded for her exertions…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Action precedes motivation.”

— Robert McKain

“It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that throws other people for a loop.”

— John Elder Robison

“Well, if there was any real reward for complaining I hadn’t seen it so far, in a life filled with suffering and verbal skill.…

— Jeff Lindsay