7 sentences with 'motivations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word motivations and other words derived from it.
• « 1. Question your motivations: Why do you want to exercise? To lose weight? To strengthen your heart? To feel better? These reasons are not great motivators, because they focus on the results; not the process. »
• « In other words, history as written by the Greeks does not merely list facts, but explains the human motivations at work in historical events and phenomena. »
• « Thucydides' work meticulously follows the events of the war while investigating the human motivations and subsequent decisions that caused the events. »
• « The Turks were driven by two motivations: the tradition of warfare against non-Muslims, and a direct interest in plundering defeated enemies. »
• « One of the main motivations for European explorers was the search for direct access to luxury goods that bypassed the Eastern mercantile networks that had traditionally benefited from the long-distance trade routes between East and West. »
• « Freud also admitted that he could not really understand women's motivations; he famously claimed that the question psychology could not answer was "what does a woman want?". »