Thomas Nagel Quotes
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.
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A friend of mine told me a bunch of stuff on Buddhism and about Avicii being the lowest level of Buddhist hell, and it just sort of got stuck in my head. Later on when I went to setup a MySpace, I tried a bunch of names and they were all taken so I just kind of ended up with Avicii and then I got really attached to it.
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You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.
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The West is not producing enough engineers.
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First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.
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You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
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So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.
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I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?
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I want to impact the world through futuristic yet affordable technologies to make the world a better place.
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In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.
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There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
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A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.
