“It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.” PeopleThinkingTwoDesireMotivationHonestFieldsFootballTaxesBenefitsGainsFundamentalsHelpfulCheatingGood PeopleFootball Field Author:Dan Ariely
“I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.” PeopleIfsWayMaySpiritMotivationFightingIndividualInterestEconomicGainsMethodFundamentalsMiserySocialismObjectivesPsychologicalFactorsCommunismRevolutionaryDryRemoveGoodsNot InterestedAlienationMarxismRepercussions Author:Che Guevara
“My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.” WorldDesireMotivationWishCommunityCreatingIdealsFundamentalsUnityAidsTechniqueRealisticFusion Author:Wolfgang Tillmans
“Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day, but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.” ShouldImportantMotivationDecisionMoralIssuesOur LivesMoralityFundamentalsEnthusiasmConvincingMoral Issues Author:Tim Kaine
“The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.” HumansPersonsRealEndsMomentsInspirationMotivationTurnsPayAttentionTechnologyFundamentalsContactReviewsArticlesHarvardDaydreamingTurn OffLaptopsBlackberries Author:Daniel Goleman
“Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.” IfsKnowsHas BeensImportantHandsScienceMotivationOpinionKnowledgePureResearchImportanceFundamentalsEndureSatisfactionImprovementExperimentsYieldStabilityAestheticGood FunApplied ScienceTransistors Author:William Shockley
“Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.” HumansMotivationLeadershipRelationFellowsFundamentalsTappingWellspring Author:Tom Peters
“The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.” MotivationalSuccessMotivationAcceptingBuildingVictorySucceedFundamentalsCancerBlockRacingFuryBicycleBuilding BlocksCredo Author:Lance Armstrong
“Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.” IfsStoriesInspirationMotivationDiesFundamentalsStatic Author:Andrew Stanton
“Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.” IdeasMotivationProgressMathematicsFundamentalsMathematicalReinterpretation Book:Science and Philosophy Source: Science and Philosophy