It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.
I'm not interested in how people move; I'm interested in what makes them move.
Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.
There have been few more potent motivating factors in history than humiliation and the desire to overcome it.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.
There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear..." he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?
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.
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
Our true passions are selfish.
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.
Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.
I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.
We are governed by our hopes and our fears.
People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.
