However, for these women journalists, the most motivating reason for putting the oxygen mask on their personal economic wellbeing was the impact they could make on the wellbeing of women around the globe.

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Earning more money has been one of my motivating factors but the most important reason for enrolling in college was that I wanted to set an example for my teen daughter.

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What we really want is not selfish self-consciousness but selfless spontaneity, and the reason why purpose is so motivating is it draws us up and out of ourselves to a place where we escape our petty prison of selfishness.

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Absent such a motivating factor, there was literally no good reason at all to rush such a poorly-researched piece of work into publication less than two months before the entire system is scheduled to change.

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But the real reason they mattered is that they introduced a note of caution into an enterprise whose motivating appeal resided in its increasingly frantic forecasts of catastrophe.

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And a strong environmental ethic has no equal for attracting and motivating good people, galvanizing them around a shared higher purpose, and giving them a powerful reason to join and to stay.

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The reason that Israel's media - like the American and European media - failed to consider what was motivating Abdullah to speak as he did is because both Israelis and Westerners suffer from an acute narcissism that prevents them from noticing anything but themselves.

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