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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
Kevin DeYoung
Myself
Good
People
Simple
Try
Mind
Power
Looking
Impress
Increase
Too
Added
Our
Please
Those
Prestige
Ourselves
Responsibilities
About
More
Look
Looking Good
Make
Am
Prove
Doing
Doing Good
Motivations
Question
Than
Get
Trying
Acquire
Many
Plate
Keep
One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.
Birdman
Life
Motivations
Billionaire
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Corruption
Own
Thoroughly
Allow
Study
Motivations
Exist
Foundations
Eliminate
Phenomenon
My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an all-too-human, venerable, and funny vigilante superhero.
Adam West
Funny
Humor
Batman
Superhero
Venerable
Well
Motivations
Depth
Vigilante
Paintings
Capture
Villains
The distinction is large in my mind. The gay police captain is eventually going to be wearing hot pants and singing 'YMCA.' The police captain who happens to be gay is going to be a huge collection of personality characteristics and motivations.
Andre Braugher
Gay
Personality
Police
Mind
Singing
Pants
Distinction
Characteristics
Collection
Wearing
Hot
Motivations
Huge
Going
Happens
Who
Captain
Large
Eventually
I want to be the world's number one one-day player; I want to win a World Cup, win the championship with Lancashire - those are my motivations.
Andrew Flintoff
World
Win
Those
Motivations
Cup
Want
World Cup
Player
Championship
Number
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur Erickson
Today
Knowledge
Our
Thorough
Period
Fairly
Because
Motivations
Same
Early
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
Beth Broderick
Time
Me
Business
People
Language
Own
Think
Other
Spending
Worrying
Way
About
Examining
My Own
More
None
Said
Motivations
Lot
Than
Interacting
Much
Fascinating
There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.
Charlie Hunnam
Journey
Me
Business
Sometimes
Approaching
Nothing
Other
Crisis
Kind
Total
Like
Self-Discovery
Operating
Go
Motivations
Existential
Hand-In-Hand
Trying
Any
Just
Avoid
Profession
Ever
Zone
Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Character
Will
Analysing
Characters
Writer
Make
Understand
Occur
Block
Motivations
Often
Notes
I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
Florence Pugh
Character
Some
Like
Least
Motivations
Role
Where
Interesting
Confusing
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Gary Becker
Assumption
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Criminals
Had
Motivations
Different
Radically
Sympathetic
Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.
Gretchen Bleiler
Getting Older
Goals
Older
Out
Married
Inspirations
Had
New
House
Becoming
Were
Motivations
Person
Getting
Getting Married
Different
Different Person
Figure
Buying
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
Gwen Ifill
Immigration
Resonate
Whatever
Side
Those
Aisle
Lawmakers
Strongly
Both
Issues
Motivations
Discovered
Public
Certainly
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
Hank Azaria
Funny
Character
You
People
Try
Situation
Would
Outrageous
Always
Real
Real Character
Sake
Motivations
Get
Really
Believable
Based
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
Henry B. Eyring
God
Sometimes
Aid
Distant
Draw
Hidden
Seem
Seems
Divine
Never
Make
Him
Occasionally
Does
Cover
Covered
Motivations
Covers
Intercept
Inaccessible
Us
Away
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.
Jacqueline Susann
Work
Paper
Motivations
Pink
Yellow
Blue
Where
Story
Cut
Then
Second
Draft
Third
Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.
Jason Kander
Vote
Rights
Voting
Will
Those
Favor
Case
Laws
Voter
Voting Rights
Suppression
Make
Real
Motivations
America
Who
Exposing
The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people - their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.
Jocko Willink
Best
People
Leader
Important
Member
Members
Must
More
Never
Leaders
Mission
Know
Another
Understand
Becomes
Motivations
Itself
Close
Families
Than
Team
Grow
Lives
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Ken Follett
You
People
Words
Aim
Insight
Motivations
Just
Meaning
Much
Notice
One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.
Kevin DeYoung
You
Christ
Live
Way
New
Identity
Understand
Testament
Motivations
New Testament
Central
Holiness
Your
Union
Who
Certainly, your characters - whether they are superheroes are not - should have foibles. They should have problems; they should have things that their powers can't solve. That's what makes them nuanced, interesting characters. They can have intense motivations. They should have intense motivations to do what they do.
Mark Waid
Problems
Characters
Solve
Superheroes
Powers
Makes
Motivations
Intense
Whether
Interesting
Interesting Characters
Them
Should
Your
Certainly
Things
There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon.
Matthew Heineman
Range
Border
Folks
Part
Arizona
Motivations
Led
Patrol
Wide
Wide Range
Initially, I was very skeptical about getting involved because I, much like many Americans, had preconceived notions about Stormy Daniels and her motivations and what she is all about.
Michael Avenatti
About
Had
Like
Involved
She
Because
Motivations
Very
American
Getting
Preconceived
Stormy
Skeptical
Much
Notions
Many
Initially
Her
When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'
Michael Palin
Life
Myself
Sometimes
Think
Spent
Out
Struggling
Never
Read
Sorted
Understand
Motivations
Quite
Impulses
Them
Whole
Profiles
You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what's happening in the outside world.
Mindy Grossman
You
World
Marry
Outside
Outside World
Understand
Motivations
Happening
Customer
Your
Who
Her
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