Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.
Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.
Even when we see somebody incredibly evil, there's a rationalization behind what they're doing. They're at their best when they're at the moment.
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
Personally I don't believe in bad people. I think there's always a reason for people acting badly.
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.
I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.