Quotes About Intrinsic

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.

We tend to fantasise about eliminating uncertainty so that the world can be safe… the first thing to note about uncertainty – or insecurity, the uncomfortable feeling it produces – is that it is intrinsic to a dynamic existence… insecurity is inescapable.

Full value for your soul wouldn't get you a cup of coffee at a convenience store.

True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics, can possess and exhibit the same essential quality.

Identity, no matter if it seems intrinsic (like race and seuxality) or the result of a conscious choice (like club membership and religious affiliation), is always rooted in the social recognition that sustains it. The most private form of identity has its origin in the given social possibilities. Identity politics hides the alienating quality of all identity and thus has an ideological function.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Vocation at its deepest level is, This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.

A system based on exchanging products inevitably channels wealth to a few, and no governmental change will ever be able to correct that. It isn't a defect of the system, it's intrinsic to the

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

The value of land, like the value of a life, is unreckonable and absolute.

Since wealth is an order and procedure of production and exchange rather than an accumulation of (mostly perishable) goods, and is a trust (the "credit system") in men and institutions rather than in the intrinsic value of paper money or checks, violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

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Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.