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“Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.”

Thinking Needs Feels Action Motivation Knowing Successful Produce Being Successful Follow Through Thinking Differently

Author:Hal Elrod

“Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes”

Self Motivation Belief Levels Quality Produce Standards Performances Expected Factors Outcomes Controlled Tied Minimum Variation Efficacy Self Efficacy Above And Below

Author:Albert Bandura

“Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.”

Happens Motivation Produce Personality Development India Robots Laboratory

Author:Narendra Modi

“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 instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”

Government Pain Motivation Interest Common Security Produce Instant Association Formal Common Interests

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.”

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation.”

Source: Philosophical Explanations