Ally Carter Quotes

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The things that motivate human beings, they don't change, emotionally.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

No one does anything from a single motive.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

People are scared of the unknown.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.