107 Quotes About Motives

  • Author Chip Heath
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    An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

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  • Author Rich Burlew
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    Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end.Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversatio

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  • Author Simone Weil
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    Education -- whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people, or even oneself -- consists in creating motives. To show what is beneficial, what is obligatory, what is good -- that is the task of education. Education concerns itself with the motives for effective action. For no action is ever carried out in the absence of motives capable of supplying the indispensable amount of energy for its execution.

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