„Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.“
— Mark Manson American writer and blogger 1984
Quelle: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 7, “Failure Is the Way Forward” (p. 160)
„This is not only dishonest; it also carries a severe penalty with it. If you disregard people's motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions.“
"As I Please," Tribune (8 December 1944)<sup> http://alexpeak.com/twr/tdoaom/</sup>
"As I Please" (1943–1947)
Kontext: We are told that it is only people's objective actions that matter, and their subjective feelings are of no importance. Thus pacifists, by obstructing the war effort, are 'objectively' aiding the Nazis; and therefore the fact that they may be personally hostile to Fascism is irrelevant. I have been guilty of saying this myself more than once. The same argument is applied to Trotskyism... To criticize the Soviet Union helps Hitler: therefore "Trotskyism is Fascism". And when this has been established, the accusation of conscious treachery is usually repeated. This is not only dishonest; it also carries a severe penalty with it. If you disregard people's motives, it becomes much harder to foresee their actions.
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„Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.“
— Abraham Verghese, buch Cutting for Stone
Quelle: Cutting for Stone
— Rousas John Rushdoony American theologian 1916 - 2001
Quelle: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 236
— Shreya Ghoshal Indian playback singer 1984
Opinion about getting first Nation award for regional language http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/music/news/Its-a-pat-on-the-back-Shreya/articleshow/5513392.cms
— Alfredo Rocco Italian politician and jurist 1875 - 1935
As quoted in “The Fascist Reform of the Penal Law in Italy,” Giulo Battaglin, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 24, Issue 1, May-June, summer 1933, p. 286. Speech in the Senate (1925)
„I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.“
— Marian Keyes Irish writer 1963
Quelle: Anybody Out There?
„People always try to find base motives behind every good action.“
— Eugéne Ionesco Romanian playwright 1909 - 1994
The Paris Review interview (1984)
Kontext: People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
„The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.“
— Katherine Mansfield New Zealand author 1888 - 1923
This has been attributed to Mansfield on the internet, but no published source by her or any other author has been located.
Misattributed
„The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.“
— Anaïs Nin, buch The Novel of the Future
The Novel of the Future (1969)
— Aleksandr Zinovyev Russian writer 1922 - 2006
4th article
Gorbachevism (1988)
„Goodness is not only required in action, but also in speech.“
— Mohammed Alkobaisi Iraqi Islamic scholar 1970
Understanding Islam, "Morals and Ethics" http://vod.dmi.ae/media/96716/Ep_03_Morals_and_Ethics Dubai Media
— Larry Flynt American publisher 1942
Larry Flynt: Don't Execute The Man Who Paralyzed Me (Guest Column), 2013-11-21, 2013-10-17, The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/larry-flynt-dont-execute-man-649158,
— Pol Pot former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea 1925 - 1998
Interview with Robert Whytman for The Guardian (11 December 1979)
— George Eliot, buch Adam Bede
Quelle: Adam Bede (1859)
Kontext: These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people — amongst whom your life is passed — that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire — for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. And I would not, even if I had the choice, be the clever novelist who could create a world so much better than this, in which we get up in the morning to do our daily work, that you would be likely to turn a harder, colder eye on the dusty streets and the common green fields — on the real breathing men and women, who can be chilled by your indifference or injured by your prejudice; who can be cheered and helped onward by your fellow-feeling, your forbearance, your outspoken, brave justice.
So I am content to tell my simple story, without trying to make things seem better than they were; dreading nothing, indeed, but falsity, which, in spite of one's best efforts, there is reason to dread. Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. The pencil is conscious of a delightful facility in drawing a griffin — the longer the claws, and the larger the wings, the better; but that marvellous facility which we mistook for genius is apt to forsake us when we want to draw a real unexaggerated lion. Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
„Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.“
— Michael Chabon, buch Die unglaublichen Abenteuer von Kavalier und Clay
Quelle: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Hungarian American psychologist 1934
Quelle: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
