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Motivations are too tangled and complex. -- Russell Banks
Motivations take you there. Tell yourself you are powerful enough to make it, and it will surprise you that.. that power will start manifesting itself. -- Israelmore Ayivor
One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire. -- Birdman
My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better. -- Enrique Iglesias
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. -- Gary Becker
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. -- Arthur Erickson
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
We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals. -- Frans de Waal
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
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
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced. -- Richard Attias
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
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 did. -- Meg Cabot
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. -- Sonia Sotomayor
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 where I cut, cut, cut. -- Jacqueline Susann
When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.' -- Michael Palin
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way. -- Kevin DeYoung
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations. -- Jeb Bush
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 on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. -- Ron Silver
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 gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field. -- Dan Ariely
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew. -- Reggie Watts
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 attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. -- Ken Robinson
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 responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good. -- Kevin DeYoung
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. -- Adam Johnson
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 it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
People's motivations haven't changed in maybe 400 or maybe 4,000 years. -- Vinton Cerf
Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome. -- Jefferson Smith
When you get up in the morning, set your motivations. -- Richard Gere
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations. -- Yuliya Snigir
Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life. -- Adam Rayner
Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations? -- Steve Jobs
The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense. -- Brandon Sanderson
Regardless of anyone's dietary motivations, the healthiest lifestyle is the one that's most compassionate. -- Steve-O
The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations. -- Caroline Myss
People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven. -- Michael Schur
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this. -- Werner Herzog
How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations. -- Alistair Begg
I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior. -- Guy Debord
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. -- John McCarthy
You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world. -- Mindy Grossman
By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power. -- Denis Waitley
Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them. -- Michelle M. Pillow
I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own. -- Norman Lock
Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time. -- Stephen Colbert
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations. -- David Frawley
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
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations. -- Sara Shepard
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 reproduction. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public. -- Gwen Ifill
In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values. -- John Dufresne
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 rewards. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself. -- Christopher Bollen
We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations. -- Garry Kasparov
Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations. -- Dean Koontz
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 divergent interests together. -- Richard Courant
I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels. -- Jessa Crispin
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 to do it anyway. -- Wendy Mass
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 thought all that well. -- Lev Yilmaz
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 survival, others alterable. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress. -- Murray Bookchin
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations. -- William J. Mann
Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations. -- William J. Mann
The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges. -- Will Wright
Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex. -- John Guare
In these unfiltered, un-moderated social media posts people are speculating about others' motivations. And you could no more put that in a peer review for a journal than you could fly. -- Susan Fiske
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, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance. -- Teresa Amabile
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 produced by the desire to escape from it? -- Didier Eribon
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 mistakes. I have been one of those men. -- Bernard Baruch
In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me. -- Alex Gibney
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 to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation. -- Timothy McVeigh
One of the deep routed motivations for looking at our connection to snow and its journey to our mountains came from Bryan Iguchi, who I rode with a lot when I was just a teenager. -- Travis Rice
[The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived. -- Orson Welles
I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as I delve into their innermost motivations and live out their lives. -- Vera Nazarian
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. -- James Tobin

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