Top 1200 Intrinsic Motivation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

I think growing up, I didn't ever attempt to define my Koreanness. It was just this intrinsic part of me.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.

Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable rocket system, very capable spacecraft. And if we don't cooperate with them in the future, they're going to develop more capable systems. If we're working together on a highly visible project, there is going to be much less, or there is going to be motivation for each country to not get into a conflict or any kind of tension in the military sense.

I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome.

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

The 'indistinguishable from magic' thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech.

If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined. A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them. Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference between them.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value.

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

In TV the main purpose is to have them keep their hands off the dial. In movies, where you have a captive audience, the opening is intrinsic to the film.

Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.

You think you're enlightened. But as my lama said, when you realize the intrinsic nature of the mind, then you start to meditate. It's not the end, it's the beginning.