#motive

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#call #emotive #i #later #myself

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#people #thoughts #unaware #which

A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#collection #dynamics #egos #go #individuals

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#allowing #bubble #commercial #control #creative

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#bear #brought #current #easy #glide

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#convinced #generous #had #i #i am

CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#been #charges #discussing #former #motives

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#force #history #making #motive #people

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#carried #excuse #moral #motive #out