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- The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense of "FEEL GOOD," a sense of inner peace and well being. To expect a person to go against his desire to feel good or as good as he can feel under any momentary condition is illogical and irrational. In the observation of human behavior, one will notice every human act is a response to a personal need. This is true whether one signs a million dollar contract, scratches one's nose, rolls over in bed, or just day dreams his life away. People will do things which seem contrary to this concept, but the bottom line is they perceive some kind of payoff which will make them feel good. And the payoff is almost always emotional. When you ask people why they want to be financially independent, they might say that they could buy things without having to worry about where the money will come from. And when they worry, they don't FEEL GOOD. A drug addict, a compulsive eater, an alcoholic and anyone with a compulsive habit will continue with their habits because at the moment of action they believe and feel it will make them feel good. That is why breaking compulsive habits are so difficult.
- Sidney Madwed
- The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
- Author Unknown
- To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.
- Author Unknown
- Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Author Unknown
- Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
- Haniel Long
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