“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.” SpiritualMotherDesireFatherCommunityConcernConcernedWelfareRelatedPurityMundaneMother's Love Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.” MayImportantSuccessDesireWinningNumbersLosingPerformancesTradeRateRelatedTradingKey To SuccessRecipe For SuccessTradersMaximizingMinimizing Author:William Eckhardt
“Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.” DesireNextReligiousVirtueSacrificeContraryThis LifeRelatedSuperstitionsSuperstitiousFatalityVivacityEarthly Desires Author:Madame de Stael
“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.” SoulFactsActionDesireThreeAnimalVirtueSpecialElementsCapableFunctionIntellectRelatedFacultySensationsAttainment Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“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.” Has BeensDesireFieldsWorkersRelatedBiologySuspectsMotivatedMolecular Biology Author:Francis Crick
“A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.” IfsPersonsDoeCountryLawDesireIndividualNationsPartyTomorrowActivityOrganizationPrisonRelatedIllegalTraitorIranianOutlaw Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi