"Motivated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Not that the pursuit of pleasure or the avoidance of pain can be the unbroken motive-force even of the most hedonistic among us. Our complex vision frequently flings us passionately upon pain. We often embrace pain in an ecstasy of welcome. Nor is this fierce embracing of pain "motivated" by a deliberate desire to get pleasure out of pain. It seems in some strange way due to an attraction towards pain for its own sake— towards pain, as though pain were really beautiful and desirable in itself. One element in all this is undoubtedly due to the desire of ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys
... feed." All this seems to point to the purely mechanical nature of the modification of o to oe to e. So many unrelated functions were ultimately served by the vocalic change that we cannot believe that it was motivated by any ...
— Language - An Introduction to the Study of Speech • Edward Sapir
... Centennial models (fig. 58).[17] It is evident, even in its earliest manifestation, that the quest for improvement of the bench plane did not alter its sound design. In 1857, M.B. Tidey (fig. 59) listed several of the goals that motivated planemakers: ...
— Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 • Peter C. Welsh
... and leaders: political party activity is organized along largely sectarian lines; numerous political groupings exist, consisting of individual political figures and followers motivated by ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... graven image Barton went on down the steps into the road. In one of his thirty-dollar riding-boots a disconcerting two-cent sort of squeak merely intensified his unhappy sensation of being motivated purely ...
— Little Eve Edgarton • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott |
