Quotes About Motivations

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

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.

I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.

To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You're able to get inside their heads in a different way. You can understand their motivations more.

Intent and motivations are irrelevant," Thrawn said. "Judgment can focus only on actions.

Intent and motivations are irrelevant, Judgment can focus only on actions.

The whole universe is a complex of rhythms, mused Amanda. We each of us feel a need to identify our bodily rhythms with those of the cosmos. The sea is the grand agency of rhythm. The grain-tops in the wind, the atoms that orbit are rhythmic. The uterus, which is a strong muscular organ, contracts with the birth of a baby - the rhythmic contractions, in fact, are the important motivations for the baby to emerge into the world. Rhythm is how it all begins.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

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.

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

As a consumer goods company serving billions of consumers every day, Unilever understands the drivers and motivations that create the norms that lie behind people's behaviour.

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.

During training, a lot of focus is placed on getting at a submissive's emotional core. Submission is about truth, about revealing yourself. If you simply demand obedience without understanding a sub's true motivations and needs, even if the sub obeys every command to the letter and every aspect of every scene, they're just going through the motions, and so are you." "Yes!

As you're reading through code, you will find things that you would have never done. You will find things you might have never even thought of. Why? What was the developer thinking? What were his or her motivations? You can even learn from bad code with this kind of critical, self-aware exploration of an existing work.

I learned that spying isn't about strengths in human nature – ideological conviction, duty, loyalty to one's country. Spying is about weaknesses – the lust for money, for status, for sex. This is the guilty secret of our secret trade.' Tanya

Forget morality tales and all the fury and mire of human complexity, and follow the money. It will lead you through urban legends about sex and revenge and jealousy and the acquisition of power over others, but ultimately, it will lead you to the issue from which all the other motivations derive—money, piles of it, green and lovely and cascading like leaves out of a beneficent sky, money and money and money, the one item that human beings will go to any lengths to acquire.

What's an ideologue?" "Someone who brings religious passion to a political abstraction only cretins could think up," he said. "When you meet one, flee his presence at all costs. He'll incinerate half the planet to save the other half and never understand his own motivations.

People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

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 by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.