Sucheta Dalal

A columnist is not a doctor, who diagnoses the disease and dispenses instant medicine. My job is to highlight problems, investigate issues, to provide factual information, and if necessary, goad the people into action - that too is not easy in the current political and business environment.

Cynthia Ozick

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

American Novelist

Charlie Sykes

As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.

American

Tobias Wolff

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

American Writer

William Butler Yeats

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Irish Poet

Lucretius

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Roman Poet

Earle Combs

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

American Athlete

Andre Schurrle

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

German Athlete

William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

English Playwright

Don Imus

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

American Celebrity

Refers to driving animals not humans; think of literal pushing or directing.

Physical Motivation

Historical farming tool; imagine old agricultural practices and livestock.

Rural Origins

Used for urging someone mentally rather than physically.

Psychological Push

Often implies unwanted or irritating persistence to encourage action.

Negative Connotation

Carries a tone of challenge or manipulation, rather than gentle persuasion.

Challenging Tone

Used metaphorically to describe what motivates or stimulates ambition or action.

Metaphorical Drive

Can be used to describe non-human forces or situations as motivators.

Impersonal Force

 and she uses em the wiles of women to goad him into into doing things he doesn't want to do he wants the ease of being controlled without having to fight for him and told you work miracles do something anything wondrous but grad fall from the heavens this is a darker character than I usually get to play and that's what it's kind of fun because I

Eoin Macken on Playing...

 So there's some tension here between trying to get the most money but trying to goad the other player into giving you more. And the way they bargain is to point on a number line that goes from zero to six dollars. They're bargaining over how much the uninformed player gets, and the informed player will get the rest.

When you're making a...

 So she goaded him and questioned his honor until he had no choice but to fight. The two faced off at the ford, matching each other exactly in strength and skill no matter what weapons they used.

The myth of Ireland's...

 they push their luck as far as the deer goading the snake to strike

Goad

Physical Motivation

Rural Origins

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