Ultimately, the factors influencing human motivation were so complex, Drucker felt, that no single formula could cover every situation.

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In effect, she proceeds as if the past five hundred years were a relatively trivial interval in the annals of human motivation.

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We might also explore the various theories that underlie and reinforce the shift, including theories of human nature and motivation, sources of creativity, non-linearity, emergence, paradox, obliquity, ethics and social responsibility and so on.

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The motivation for human behavior may be complicated, but Devastations' members reduce it to a basic and universal truth: If it feels good, it's hard to resist.

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As much as it may have evolved, in the human animal, as a motivation system for mate-finding, it was rarely given great consideration in the final reckoning of conjugal choice.

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Either we must conclude that even ants are capable of such empathic suffering, which seems absurd, or we must view the rat experiments as proving nothing about psychological motivation, leaving human beings on a pedestal.

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It reveals a sensitivity to human form that might underlie an intrinsic motivation to pay attention to and connect with others.

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First, it allows us to establish education as a basic human right, so that anyone with the motivation and the ability would have the opportunity to get the skills that they need to make a better life for themselves, their families and their communities.

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