Some articles on motives, motive:
... an exaggeration to say that self-enhancement is the dominant self motive ... controversies exist regarding the distinction between the self-motives, and there are situations in which motives asides from self-enhancement assume priority ... The self-assessment motive is often contrasted with the self-enhancement motive due to the relative adaptiveness of each approach within social interactions ...
... at hand in attempting to win Allies' support while they had motives not necessarily in congruence with China's ... Second Sino-Japanese War, it is important to appreciate the underlying reasons and motives of the different parties that they brought to the war ...
... A motive cited for his actions is the Middle East conflict ... day, on June 6, the Los Angeles Times printed an article, which discussed Sirhan's motive for the assassination, confirmed by the memos Sirhan wrote to himself ...
... Cognitive Preservation Motives a ... Need for objectification (passive, external) Cognitive Growth Motives a ... (passive, external) Affective Preservation Motives a ...
... pillars can be found at the Alhambra, whereas the motives on the ceiling are a faithful reproduction of the ceiling in the church Alkalda de Heinares ... the Pompeian classroom the Byzantine classroom with motives from St ... the Gothic classroom, which displays motives of the churches in Steinakirchen am Forst, Lower Austria and Ptuj, Slovenia the Roman classroom by the example of the church of ...
Famous quotes containing the word motives:
“Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.”
—Robert Emmet (1778–1803)
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common things ... or it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, and obedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)