Quotes About Motivations

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations.

Trump's ambitions and motivations notwithstanding, his legacy in the Middle East might best be characterized as tactical maneuvers and strategic incoherence. 3 Trump's actions and tweets left the Middle East in worse shape than what he had inherited, as his policy unorthodoxy created a great deal of uncertainty.

another way. I think she preferred that we weren't close to Dad. She was bitter toward him, and she encouraged us to do what we wanted, which was to stay in LA, because she knew it would hurt him." Sloane suddenly recognized her mother's motivations

The more you watch users carefully and listen to them articulate their intentions, motivations, and thought processes, the more you realize that their individual reactions to Web pages are based on so many variables that attempts to describe users in terms of one-dimensional likes and dislikes are futile and counter-productive. Good design, on the other hand, takes this complexity into account.

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.

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.

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Non potremo mai stabilire con certezza fino a che punto i nostri rapporti con gli altri sono il risultato dei nostri sentimenti, del nostro amore, del nostro non-amore, della nostra bontà o del nostro rancore e fino a che punto sono condizionati dal rapporto di forze tra gli individui.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Humans are survivors. They do things for themselves and then attempt to conceal their motivations through elaborate subterfuges. Gift-giving is a prime example of behavior that is secretly selfish. -Erasmus

Here's the reality: many women are led into marriage primarily through romantic idealism, and many men are swept to the altar through sexual attraction. Before you can make a wise marital choice, you have to rid yourself of inferior motivations. The wrong why will lead you to the wrong who.

Denial, the act of not being aware of inner feelings and fears and motivations, is the opposite of mindfulness.

La proyección es la acción psicológica consistente en negar el miedo y las motivaciones inconscientes y después traspasar esos miedos y motivaciones a los demás. Tenga cuidado de no proyectar sus sentimientos ocultos en otras personas o de atribuirles intenciones y propósitos cuando no los tienen. Esa distorsión de la realidad le hace daño a usted y se lo hace también al otro.

Our desires permeate our perceptions

A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

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.

Emotions are the spawn of true motivations, whether those motivations be conscious or otherwise.

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

When a child carries unspoken rules into adulthood, he or she may try to determine what others are thinking based on their behavior rather than their words, and because behavior can be based on a variety of motivations, this can cause blocks in communication.

Hidden within the main conflict were dozens of other, more local wars, which had different flavours and different motivations in each country and each region.

Churchless adults tend to be independent and self-reliant, more skeptical than the churched about the motivations of people and institutions, and ready to stonewall those entities until they prove trustworthy and beneficial.

There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.

Anthropologists can speculate about human behavior; archaeologists, about patterns of settlement; philosophers and theologians, about the motivations of "humanity" as an undifferentiated mass. But the historian's task is different: to look for particular human lives that give flesh and spirit to abstract assertions about human behavior.