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“My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.”

People Has Beens Motivation Passion Company Products Endure Profit Motivated My Passion

Author:Steve Jobs

“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.”

Writing Mind Humans May Has Beens Stories Seems Film Motivation Principles Novel Products Essentials Raises Series Contact Aliens Complexity Human Mind Fifth Ambiguity Delayed Disregarded

Author:James Gunn

“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”

People Wells Has Beens Young Motivation Successful Achieve Students Amount Investment Programmes Nasa Stimulation

Author:Neil Armstrong

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source: 99 My Life in Pictures

“Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.”

Want Has Beens Ideas States Use Would Be Motivation Achieve Possibility Regard Democratic Feminist Accomplish Impulse Censorship Persuasion Pornography Marketplace

Author:Susan Jacoby

“[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Action Motivation Dies Passion Goes On Men And Women Princess Intervals Been In Love

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.”

Has Beens Inspiration Motivation Technology Magic Replaced Machinery

Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“If I have taken part in anything perceived as the fame machine, it's been my choice. My motivations certainly have been different from some people's that I've worked with. But it's okay to work equally passionately for two different reasons.”

People Ifs Has Beens Two Different Reason Motivation Choices Taken Fame Okay Machines

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.”

Has Beens Motivation Wealth Rich Produce Source Bounds Greed Concrete Accusation

Book:Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal

“The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In light of this, they could never have sustained such unwavering motivation if they knew what they were preaching was a lie. The disciples were not fools and Paul was a cool-headed intellectual of the first rank. There would have been several opportunities over three to four decades of ministry to reconsider and renounce a lie.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Light Lying Motivation Three Opportunity Four Fool Intellectual Gains Starting Decades Hardship Ministry Preaching Disciple Ridicule Martyr Hostility Renounce Unwavering

Author:J.P. Moreland

“So 2000 to 2008 probably is the last time we had leadership in Washington with any power which had the belief that America is the solution to problems in the world/ America always has been. We've got some things wrong but our motivations and interests have always been aboveboard.”

World Has Beens Problem Lasts America Motivation Belief Interest Solutions Last Time Solution To A Problem

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green.”

People Way Has Beens Jobs Young Motivation Poor Pay Streets Students Wall Benefits Lows Vote Green Debt Candidates Temporary Insecure Irresistible Crooks Bail

Author:Jill Stein

“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 Beens Motivation Values Father Party Principles Clear Focus Economic Return Financial Violent Tea Racist Restraint Founding Tea Party Homophobic

Author:Andrew Breitbart

“When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence and assertiveness and motivation and drive and focus. So that to me, explained why for 5,000 years female sexuality has been targeted.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Able Motivation Culture Sex Focus Female Sexuality Anticipate Subordinates Boost Assertiveness Dopamine Female Sexuality Motivation And Drive

Author:Naomi Wolf

“My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Motivation Information Competition Publish Wikileaks

Author:Julian Assange

“I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”

Ifs Love Has Beens Inspiration Might Motivation Stars Goal Inspiring Encouragement Reaching Encouraging Might Have Been

Author:Milton Berle

“In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.”

Thinking Heart Has Beens Motivation My Heart Built Being The Best Athletic Athletics

Author:Daley Thompson

“We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.”

Giving Has Beens Helping Motivation Money Listening Butterfly Distracted Unnatural Make You Happy Prestige Cuckoos

Author:Rajneesh

“No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”

Inspirational May Has Beens Might Motivation Lost Stars Might Have Been Adelaide

Author:Adelaide Anne Procter

“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

Inspirational Mind Has Beens States Reality Motivational Success Motivation Powerful Defeat Accepted State Of Mind Defeated Accepting Reality Sith Defeated You

Book:Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

Source: Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

“I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but I felt like I competed. I felt like this was not my day, but I never gave up, and I tried on every shot, and then next week I'd go get them.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Motivation Next Winning Felt Sports Week Shots Competing Gave Up Softball Next Week

Author:Juli Inkster

“The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.”

Want Has Beens Important Motivation Games Sports Goal Ability Accepting Being The Best Hats Strongest Assets Softball

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.”

Has Beens Motivation Social Liberty Libertarian Variety Libertarianism Public School Schooling Institute Social Control

Author:Hugh Jackman

“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.”

“At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write."”

“I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Used Motivation Results Support Emotional Picks Charity Expertise

Author:Arabella Weir

“I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Inspiration Motivation Pay Asking Obsessed What If

Author:Amanda Palmer

“A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.”

Inspirational Mind Wells Has Beens Made Age Motivation Speak Educated

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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