What John Ruskin thinks about motivation

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English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900); author of Unto This Last.

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   Our readingWorkers do the most work when moved by affection, not by pay or pressure

   Their wordsThe largest quantity of work will not be done by this curious engine for pay, or under pressure, or by help of any kind of fuel which may be supplied by the chaldron. It will be done only when the motive force, that is to say, the will or spirit of the creature, is brought to its greatest strength by its own proper fuel; namely, by the affections.

   ↗Unto This Last (1860-1862)gutenberg.org All 21 from this book