Motives Quote by Haruki Murakami

“People have motives, what they are, is what you need to notice.”

— S.D. Walker

“Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.”

— William Howard Taft

“All these observations fascinate us, and fill us with an intense desire to know more about the nature of these phenomena.”

— Nikola Tesla

“We are constantly being shaped by seemingly irrelevant stimuli, subliminal information, and internal forces we don't know a thing about.”

— Robert Sapolsky

“It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.”

— Rae Carson

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

— Charles Baudouin

“I’m trying now to exaggerate the essence of things, and to deliberately leave vague what’s obvious.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

— John Rawls

“When you constantly question the motives of others you can't see them in their truest form.”

— Jayce O'Neal

“Strange it is, but unforgettable moments are often connected with very small happenings, happenings that assume fictitious proportions, especially”

— Radclyffe Hall

Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a…

— Carolyn Porco

“The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.”

— William Osler