Sentence examples for motivated to please from inspiring English sources
Douglas Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College who has been chief of staff to a council member, said that officials are also motivated to please the residents to whom the budget is still an abstraction and whose votes they will need next year.
(The problem is exacerbated if, as is so often the case, the subjects are psychology undergraduates, more than averagely motivated to please their professors and to further the goals of psychological science, and better placed than most to make a good guess as to what an experiment might be about).
It is also possible that social desirability may have played a role in both score changes and self-reported improvement, if participants were motivated to please the researchers or to shed a positive light on their treatment program.
Only the children, the actor Devon Gearhart and his stand-in, Gregory Clifton, seemed motivated and eager to please.
What kept you motivated to keep writing?
"But we're motivated to think big".
"We are very motivated to win.
"But we're not motivated to change.
Are you motivated to change?
"They're motivated to do things.
Stay motivated to exercise.
