Top 6 Effectance 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 blog because I have something to say.

Eddie Huang

#3. The tits and the hair and the personality helped build the whole Dolly deal, but it was my music that brought me out of the Smokey Mountains.

Dolly Parton

#4. Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

Andrew Mason

#6. Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

Jack Kevorkian

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