„Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.“

— Ayn Rand

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„A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.“
— Ayn Rand
„Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.“
— Buckminster Fuller
„This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs.“
— Jimmy Carter
„When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe, to escape over barbed-wire fences, under machine-gun fire—one can no longer believe that socialism, in any of its forms, is motivated by benevolence and by the desire to achieve men’s welfare.“
— Ayn Rand
„The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment — an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.“
— Franz Kafka