“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.” HomeMotivationBitsClearTerribleBehaviorConsequenceTestsHarderMotivatedBuriedLabsBad BehaviorControl Ourselves Author:Ben Marcus
“The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.” WayWellsMayPlayMotivationClearWrittenModernCenturyMediaExampleTypePersonalityContemporaryManipulationSurprisingPettyAlliancesResonanceActualityGaddafiMubarak Author:Kevin Spacey
“The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.” GivingSaidMotivationClearMediaInformationSourceBasesIraqRelatedMainstreamHusseinCoverageProminentConductingDubiousInspection Author:Scott Ritter
“I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.” ArtMotivationStuffProcessClearSeaConditionsDrawsFlowSwimDelicateMembranes Author:Geraldine Brooks
“Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.” SometimesPlaySeemsMotivationClearProtectMusicalDetailsMysteriousSpelling Author:John Guare
“The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.” Has BeensMotivationValuesFatherPartyPrinciplesClearFocusEconomicReturnFinancialViolentTeaRacistRestraintFoundingTea PartyHomophobic Author:Andrew Breitbart
“When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.” StillsInspirationTodayMotivationGrowthTechnologyClearFourCarTomorrowModelsCleanPopulationBillionsFactorsTrafficJamEmissionsMobilityPopulation GrowthTraffic Jam Author:Bill Ford
“Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.” ThinkingHelpingActionMotivationEnergyGoalLeadershipCreativityClearWonderfulWrittenEffectsOvercomingFactorsReleaseProcrastinationWritten Goals Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time