The near overnight success of companies such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Digg has motivated a slew of us into believing that we too can create the next big thing on the Internet.

深受着Youtube、Facebook、Flickr以及Digg这些成功的互联网案例的影响，有时候我们也会想我们能不能成为下一个互联网的成功者。

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They are motivated by a need to achieve.

他们被成功的需要激励着。

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While some people are motivated by a need for success, others are motivated by a fear of failure.

虽然有些人做事情的动机是为了成功，但有些人做事是出害怕。

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"Dopamine is considered a neurotransmitter that is crucial for our ability to perceive rewards and to be motivated in our behavior."

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I mean, there is, within Israeli politics, there is a movement of various religiously motivated people who want to reclaim the land that forefathers lived on.

我的意思是，在以色列政治中，有一种运动会由不同宗教信仰的人组成,为国家找回领土。

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With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

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That question motivated a new study he recently published with Ya-Ru Chen, a management professor at Cornell.

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What on earth motivated a 48-year-old Chicago publishing executive to suddenly uproot his family and move to the wild west of Napa Valley back in 1973?

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Those times motivated a rude awakening, and tested our resolve.

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