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• The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

  Dennis Rainey

  Men, Way, Steps

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• You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Reading, Desire, Changed

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

  Rico Lebrun

  Passion, Emotion, Aim

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• Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Innovation

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• When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

  Linda Stone

  Desire, Different, Tasks

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• If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

  Daphne Koller

  Jobs, Class, Skills

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• I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Children, Clothes

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• I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.

  Ray Emery

  Motivation, Play, Guy

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• Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only slightly more remote dangers. One of these is the stupefaction of man (the "gray mass," to use the cynical term of bourgeois prognosticators) by mass culture with its intentional or commercially motivated lowering of intellectual level and content, with its stress on entertainment or utilitarianism, and with its carefully protective censorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Stress, War, Men

  "Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom" by Andrei Sakharov, ("The Threat to Intellectual Freedom"), www.sakharov-center.ru. 1968.

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• In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

  John Rawls

  Class, Expectations, Achievement

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, Wish, Might

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Fall, Mean, Eye

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• I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

  Francis Crick

  Desire, Molecular Biology, Fields

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• I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.

  Lionel Hampton

  Play, Ideas, Spirit

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• It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Book, Reading, College

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

  Bernard Baruch

  Psychology, Investing, Movement

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• To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to picture themselves in the future.... If they can't, then they're simply reacting to daily events, responding to the needs of the moment--for pleasure, for affiliation, for acceptance.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Home, Acceptance

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• For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Law, God Love, Sincere

  R. C. Sproul (2011). “Chosen by God”, p.91, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Ambition, Purpose

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah

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• Act by inspiration, motivated by love.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Inspiration

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• I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.

  Will Smith

  Hate, I Hate, Being Afraid

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• It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.

  Barack Obama

  People, Volunteer, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I really get motivated when I have doubters.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Doubters

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• Actually, I don't like Atheists very much - at least most of them ~ because they are not motivated to move into the community and attempt to correct the injustices which are everywhere apparent against them.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Moving, Community

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• Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Mvp, Years

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