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Motivative   Listen
adjective
motivative, motivating  adj.  Causing motion or impelling to action; providing a motive (2); as, motivating arguments.
Synonyms: motive(prenominal). "It may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"






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"Motivative" Quotes from Famous Books



... touched at the selfless spirit in which Father had been able to quickly put aside his personal desires. The just realization had come to him during the preceding night that no ordinary desire for foreign travel was motivating my voyage. ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... urging the repeal of a law might have several topics, such as how the law was passed, its first operations, its increasing burdens upon people, the disappearance of the necessity for it, better methods of securing the same or better results, etc., yet all grouped about the motivating theme of securing the repeal of the law. To emphasize the greatness of a man's career a speaker might introduce such topics as his obscure origin, his unmarked youth, the spur that stimulated his ambition, his early reverses, provided that they contribute to the impression ...
— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... some if not all of the significant forms of human behavior. Freud's interpretation of sex, however, seemed to include the whole field of desires that have their origin in touch stimulations. To Jung the libido is vital energy motivating the life-adjustments of the person. Adler from his study of organic inferiority interpreted the libido as the wish for completeness or perfection. Curiously enough, these critics of Freud, while not accepting his interpretation of the unconscious wish, still seek to reduce all motives to a ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park



Words linked to "Motivative" :   motivating, motivate, causative, motive



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