Sentences with phrase «attempt at motivation»

Because of these personality characteristics, deliberate attempts at motivation by the managing partner are immediately perceived and are oftentimes counterproductive.

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Waymo's strategy so far appears to be attempting to prove that Kalanick was fixated on beating Google and winning the self - driving car race at all costs, which could in turn serve to explain his motivation to conspire with Levandowski.

The open - ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate the president's thinking, to get at the motivation behind some of his most combative Twitter posts and to examine his relationships with his family and his closest advisers.

To alter significantly the shape of such a universe is to engage in what can be called a process of «totalistic» transformation, for attitudes and motivations are a crucial part of what needs to be addressed in any attempt at change.

The researchers never attempted to look at motivations for violence, he says.

In an attempt to locate and boost the brain cells responsible for motivation in rats, Melissa Warden at Stanford University in California and colleagues inserted electrodes into two brain regions thought to control the feeling.

This helps motivate me to continue when my own attempts at self - motivation are failing.

A few attempts by the enfeebled cast at explaining backstory and character motivation provide the disc's only truly squirm - worthy moments.

Furthermore, the motivations of the characters and small attempts at symbolic touches give the film a very bizarre feel, as if trying to give ersatz meaning to the meaningless.

Its title would suggest an attempt at equal rendering of its titular characters, but Lola, along with any other female characters, remain wrapped (or perhaps warped) in mystery, their motivations and ideals manipulated by the desire or fear of the men in their lives.

Winning isn't everything in a documentary that takes a celebratory look at personal motivation and attempting the extraordinary.

Jeff Goldblum, as a cornball trash - planet dictator who describes his primary weapon as «the Melt Stick,» rolls his eyes at Thor's attempt to explain his motivations — «I'm sure there's a big history» — and literally refers to Thor's home world as «Ass - Guard.»

In his paper, A Theory of Human Motivation, he proposed that motivation is the result of a person's attempt at fulfilling 5 basic needs, starting from physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self - actuMotivation, he proposed that motivation is the result of a person's attempt at fulfilling 5 basic needs, starting from physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self - actumotivation is the result of a person's attempt at fulfilling 5 basic needs, starting from physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self - actualization.

Without student motivation, all learning strategies are moot, all school improvement efforts are nil, and all attempts at student engagement are irrelevant and pointless.

«Attempts at reform to help struggling students backfired, at least in part, because policymakers neglected to spend more time engaging in dialogue with teachers about how to address student motivation issues and the ramifications of failure on high - stakes universally required tasks,» Mac Iver writes.

Sure, there were occasions when an attempt at bargaining was the motivation.

Compare all of this to Black Ops II which at least attempted, in an admittedly over-the-top-manner, to address the idea of America having a powerful drone army and present us with a villain whose motivations and reasoning actually made sense.

There have been recent attempts at providing an actual reason to go after achievements instead of just purely out of motivation purposes.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

I find that deterioration of the temperature discussions is fueled not only by those who do not understand the processes and instead harp on motivation but by those who should know better than to attempt to keep the discussion at the level of the ignorant.