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WHAT IS IT about FREE! that's so enticing? Why do we have an irrational urge to jump for a FREE! item, even when it's not what we really want? — Dan Ariely

We may never know in this life why we face what we do, but we can feel confident that we can grow from the experience. — James B. Martino

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are. — Charles Koch

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for. — David Brooks

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?' — Nicholas Negroponte

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing. — Michael White

It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles. — Joan Robinson

Why life is so dark sometimes we do not know, but we do know this: what happens is not as important as what we do with what happens. — Marvin J. Besteman

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? — George Carlin

Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have. — BeBe Winans

Ann: If we know God, we do not need to know why He allows us to experience what we do. — K. Howard Joslin

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. — Zadie Smith

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Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are! — Erich Maria Remarque

It is not what we do that is important. It is why we do it. — Nicola Morgan

Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it. — Kelly McGonigal

Regardless of WHAT we do in our lives, our WHY - our driving purpose, cause or belief - never changes. — Simon Sinek

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it. — George R R Martin

No matter what, no matter how hard we try ... why do I feel like I'm going to lose you? — Brittainy C. Cherry

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us? — T.A. Barron

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do? — Arthur C. Clarke

Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are. — Collin H. Woodward

What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why? — Norbert Lynton

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of ... situation. — Cassandra Clare

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way. — Cliff Burton

Perhaps what we should be asking at cocktail parties is not, Where do you go to school? but, Why did you go to school? — Race Bannon

Why did we have more than we knew what to do with, while they had less than they needed to stay alive? — Ransom Riggs

There are no excuses," he said at last. "But there are reasons. Reasons why we are what we are. Reasons why we do not have to stay that way. — Mercedes Lackey

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers. — Al Franken

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? — Boyle Roche

In truth it matters less what we do ... than how we do it and why. — Donna Farhi

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do. — Simon Sinek

Why do you do what you do? Why do I do what I do? We will probably neither ever know, and so what we do on a daily basis is complete rubbish. — Jim Kroswell

The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear. — Jack Canfield

Why do we have to humiliate someone to crack a joke??? Do what u would like people to do with u.. — Honeya

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people? — John Boehner

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic. — Stella Maeve

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing. — Joyce Meyer

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do? — Laura Dave

Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than what we are now, students. If they can do it, why not us? — J.K. Rowling

What we've been denied is what we deny others. But why? Why do we fall into the same patterns of those people we always swore we'd never be like? — Nicole Williams

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other? — Kate Bornstein

People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do. — Miguel Ruiz

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? — Marcus Aurelius

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? — David McCullough

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? — Brigham Young

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it — Howard Schultz

We say WHAT we do, we sometimes say HOW we do it, but we rarely say WHY we do WHAT we do. — Simon Sinek

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia? — Tim Kaine

We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects. — Edwin Powell Hubble

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us? — P. J. O'Rourke

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise? — Mitch Albom

What is it with you and frozen desserts Why do you always want them?"
"Because we live in a dessert. — Richelle Mead

We all know that change is hard, but we don't know enough about why it is so hard and what we can do about it. — Robert Kegan

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make? — Shaun Tan

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world. — Aaron Levie

We live not for the years but for the moments. — Debasish Mridha

Why is that? Why do we love each other?" "Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it. — J.D. Robb

Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella — Cindy Vine

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together. — Eric San

God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements. — Rick Warren

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do. — Zig Ziglar

Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do — Sue Klebold

What do we believe? Why do we believe it? — Joey Skaggs

We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens. — Michael A. Singer

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do. — John Lloyd

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way? — William Gaddis

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here. — Ian Botham

If you ask, 'What happens when we die? Why do we die?' you are asking, 'Why do we live? — Nadine Gordimer

Why do we always ponder on what changes another person had undergone, yet never looking at the mirror to see our changes? — Low Kay Hwa

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president? — Jon Stewart

It's not what we do, so much as why we do it. — George R R Martin

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed? ... — Swami Vivekananda

Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation BY EDWARD L. DECI WITH RICHARD FLASTE — Daniel H. Pink

But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. — Pinball Clemons

Why we do what we do? — Deyth Banger

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are. — Philipp Meyer

Why do we insist on putting limitations on what people are capable of doing? — Gaby Rodriguez

A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do. — John Petrucci

We anyway have to THINK
Why not think BIG
We anyway have to WORK
Why not do what we LOVE — Mala Mary Martina

What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh. — Ronnie Apteker

What is time? How is it measured? Why do we measure it? What is its purpose?
-Mr. Ludwig — S.L. Whyte

Why do humans never really learn the lessons we are supposed to? What is in our makeup, in fact, that draws us to that which should sicken us? — Harlan Coben

The truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why. — Os Guinness

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do. — Ruth Ozeki

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. — Sharon Salzberg