#co

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#motivation #risk #submission #motivational

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#compliance #control #engagement #motivation #motivational

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #conferences #john-paul-warren #john-warren #motivational

Mr. Rivenhall said to Sophy, “If this is your doing—!” “I promise you it is not. If I thought that he had the smallest notion of your hostility, I should say that he had rolled you up, Charles, foot and guns!” He was obliged to laugh. “I doubt if he would have the smallest notion of anything less violent than a blow from a cudgel. How you can tolerate the fellow!” “I told you that I was not at all nice in my ideas. Come, don’t let us talk of him! I have sworn an oath to heaven not to quarrel with you today.” “You amaze me! Why?” “Don’t be such an ape!” she begged. “I want to drive your grays, of course! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#cousin #ulterior-motive #motivational

Competition is a rude yet effective motivation. ↗

— Toba Beta

#effective #motivation #rude #motivational

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#fifty #incommunicable #know #knows #man

When somebody wins, the fighting will be over. ↗

— Lelouch Lamperouge

#motivational #motivational

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead. ↗

— William H. Gass

#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#letter-art #letter-writing #letters #art

The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an aspect built into the fundamental specification of human nature itself. Any prescription not recognising this important aspect of life is bound to fail in the life-styles of human beings. ↗

— Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin

#communism #incentives #materialism #religion #life