A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
动机
Motive
No one does anything from a single motive.
没有人会因为一个单一的动机而做任何事情。
Motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad.
动机在做善事时比在做坏事时更重要。
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
残忍,像其他所有的罪恶一样,不需要任何外在的动机;它只需要机会。
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
你会发现,在政治中,你很容易受到错误动机的影响。不要抱怨,也不要解释。
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
我真的没有什么不可告人的动机来扮演某些角色。我没有更大的问题想要展示给大家。我是个演员,仅此而已。我只是做我该做的。
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
仅仅因为科学家有做这件事的知识,有做这件事的技术,而且有些人甚至有经济动机或其他动机去做这件事,并不能使它正确。
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
很少有人能解释他们为什么要参军,如果他们想这么做,他们可能只能证明自己做了一个政客说的那样,出于错误的动机做了正确的事情。
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
如果你真的让你的创意部分控制你的写作,而不是更多的商业本能或动机,那么你会发现各种有趣的事情都会浮出水面。