“It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.” PeopleTryingMotivationPresidentPsychologyHappenedGoes OnDadComplexesYour DadComplex Relationships Author:Jeb Bush
“I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a writer like Céline or Gottfried Benn without worrying whether they conform to existing notions of political incorrectness.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansArtIdeasSelfPoliticalMotivationLiteratureEnergyLinesPayAttentionFictionWorryShapesGoodnessAppreciateComplexesNotionLiberalismAbandonWorks Of ArtConformEquationsAmbiguousPhilistines Author:Pankaj Mishra
“It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of course, such complexity is warranted. No one illness or event causes suicide; and certainly no one knows all, or perhaps even most, of the motivations behind the killing of the self. But psychopathology is almost always there, and its deadliness is fierce. Love, success, and friendship are not always enough to counter the pain and destructiveness of severe mental illness” KnowsSelfReasonEnoughPainMotivationDiesCoursesCausesDecisionBehindsEventsSuicideComplexesKillingIllnessCommittedMental IllnessComplexityFierceSevereTemptingPsychopathologyDestructiveness Author:Kay Redfield Jamison
“Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.” InspirationPurposeMotivationAsksSocialTechnologyInternetComplexesIntricateSocial Network Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.” WorldWantLastsDesireMotivationLeadershipEffortStudentsScientistComplexesMedicalSignificantContributionGood In The WorldSignificant Things Author:Gustav Nossal
“I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down before, not knowing what's around the corner and then seeing a landscape that is so extraordinarily beautiful and complex, being part of the community that is driving the boundaries of knowledge and giving us insight into the amazing process of life.” ThinkingGivingBeautifulMotivationProcessCommunityKnowingSeeingAdventureWalkingIntellectualScientistComplexesTrackCornersInsightDrivingBoundariesLandscapePushingNot KnowingAround The CornerProcess Of Life Author:Suzanne Cory
“Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.” NeedsBelieveInspirationDesireMotivationI BelieveSpaceEmotionOur LivesIntellectualMirrorsComplexesArchitectureIntimacyComplexity Author:Daniel Libeskind