Conative Quotes

#1. We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

Samuel Alexander

#2. The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.

Abraham H. Maslow

#3. Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

Mooji

#4. It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

Johnny Galecki

#5. Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Alfred Korzybski

#6. ...creative output depends on creative input.

Robert C. Martin

#7. It's cool to get some more energy going and more interest. It's definitely more than it was, still not as much as I'd love it to be, but things are picking up and interesting projects are coming my way, and I love that.

Katie Aselton

#8. Adversity challenges the masks we hide behind, revealing sides of ourselves we have not yet comfortably with the world outside. It is why we dislike adversity, because we have to face what we don't yet understand about ourselves.

Michael Arndt

#9. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Mikhail Lermontov

#10. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

John O'Donohue