Gregory Maguire Quote

There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an...

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. But as Mr. Erskine also pointed out, Eros with his bow and arrows is not the only bl...

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives fo...

The man who pursues moral ends with unmoral means is involved in acontradiction of motives, and nullifies the object at which he aims,since he denies it by his actions.

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave...

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

I survive at the edge of friends circles.