Effectance Motive Quotes

#1. The effectance motive helps explain the progress principle: We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, Joy's soul lies in the doing.

Jonathan Haidt

#2. I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little.

David Levithan

#3. Wow," I said, brilliant as always.
He chuckled. "Understatement of the millennium."(Sabina/Adam)

Jaye Wells

#4. Americans eat more tomatoes than any other vegetable or fruit. *********************************

Jack West

#5. Relationships are like farting, If you push too hard things could get messy real fast.

Kevin Hart

#6. Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

Andrew Linzey

#7. The key to productive life is a complete care for the body, soul, spirit and mental well being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.

Tim Wise

#9. There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

Donald Glover

#10. I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#11. It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.

Daniel Tosh