Dear Nizar,

Thank you for the wise poem."While there is life, there is hope"

A.S.Pushkin in Vadim Rumynskiy's translation

"How many blissful revelations

The spirit of enlightment hides!

And then experience born of lapses

And genius antinomy-wise

And chance, the heavenly inventor"

http://pranava.livejournal.com/3510.html

The motivation for the preliminary works is, of course, hope and ambitions.  After that the quality and progress of initial works affect the confidence level of the researcher.  But, always the driviing force is the hope and desire for better contributions in the relevant area of research.  It is my experience.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Qr60-C8S0xwC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=Is+the+first+in+the+motivation+of+scientific+achievement+the+hope+or+the+preliminary+work+results?&source=bl&ots=fpb2x6KOF8&sig=CqVzfkOkSR8yeHj7uNkm5jylb9A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aU-CVZy4LYnU7Ab7w4HACQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Is%20the%20first%20in%20the%20motivation%20of%20scientific%20achievement%20the%20hope%20or%20the%20preliminary%20work%20results%3F&f=false

Publications in reputed journals - this is the first in the motivation of scientific achievements!

Qasim -

For me the best feeling might be the hope and excitement of having an idea come to me, maybe when in the shower and I needed to rush to write down the idea, or when I got up at night to write it down.  (Coming up with an idea while running a workout always sounded like a bad idea. One needs to pay attention to traffic!  Ideas often come when you relax.)  I have more of a "big picture" approach to problem solving anyway, and am not as good with the details. 

But there is a saying that accomplishments are "10% inspiration and 90% perspiration," meaning you get the idea and then you have to do a great deal of work to implement it.  The first results may typically not be as promising as hoped.  You may start to see limitations to your idea that seemed so flawless at first.  But I'm certain that there are exceptions.

Then there can be later disappointment.  One method for which I had great hope worked out fantastically well, and should be extremely useful, in particular at the agency where I worked when I developed that statistical method (for estimating sample size needs).  However, that agency has many problems with management and competence, and the method has seen almost no use, and the agency's future does not appear to be very bright, so there is not a lot of hope that things will be/get better. 

So, I see the hope in the original idea, and after that there is mostly hard work trying to do the best you can with it.  There is a lot of satisfaction in what you finally accomplish, but since this question was about hope, I'd say that is strongest in the very beginning.

Thank you - Jim 

Hope comes first. Hope generates motivation to do research that brings results  --- results bring satisfaction to further motivate to actualize hope.

Ali - To what section of the report to which you supplied a link are you referring? - Do you mean there is hope in overcoming obstacles, or is there something about preliminary results found through that link that you intended people to notice? - Thanks - Cheers - Jim 

The state of the motivation can influence learning. People often learn categories in the context of performing other tasks. These tasks may lead to potential gains or losses for the learner. Consequently, the learner’s regulatory focus can influence responding to tasks involving gains and losses, which in turn can affect what is learned.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/_files/markman/JETAI05.pdf

Dear @Qasim, sometimes academic anxieties may prevent us from good will for research,  lack of motivation... I have had such experience some time ago. WE have to cope with.

I do agree that preliminary results is force to the final achievement. Motivation and attitude is the key issue. Possible failure in research process should serve as a driving force toward a research achievement. Hard work is MUST!

In the very beginning the hope plays an important role to make efforts and work hard in the scientific achievement.

I thinks, some times at first,  we need a hope to start working towards a particular goal. After obtaining primary encouraging results, the target becomes achieve scientific achievement.

“Hope is the thing with feathers 

That perches in the soul 

And sings the tune without the words 

And never stops at all.” 

― Emily Dickinson (American Poet)

Hope really keeps one going amid all difficulties, obstructions, bleak environment, and all unconstructiveness there is. When the first round of work results are fine, they will trigger hope to achieve more; If they are not fine, they ought to prompt hope "again" to do better. In both accounts, a chain of hope is a necessity for "rise & shine".

Hope comes first followed subsequently by results of work done. Results thereof will be propelled by ambition which is driven by hope. Thats my take though.

Dear Nizar et all, 

What a nice poem about hope.

But i also agree that motivation make us understand better the issue at hand, and enjoying what we are doing.

Motivation is a positive attitude that leads to a positive behavior.

...and i hope to be right about this!

Helena

Either “the hope or the preliminary work results” is hope, so hope is the first.

But I think in many cases, interest is original motivation and plays an important role to enjoy “scientific work” and after getting some results, these results give another motivation to enjoy more “scientific work”.

'Result orientation' plays important role towards motivating a researcher and 'positive thinking' about 'achieving the results' may be seen as 'Hope with feathers'

Rephrasing Qasim's comment:

"I think, some times at first, we need a deadline to start working towards a particular goal. After obtaining primary encouraging results, the target tends to achieve several new deadlines in multiple directions."

The hope alone does not function anything, but must be accompanied by thinking and efforts and benefit from the experience of others. Then the a achievement will be realized.

“Act with healthy hopes (healthy motivations)” always bring “good fruits”.

Can motivation be generated without hope? I think not at all!

Some people believe that motivation can sometimes be generated only by interests.

I think to apply democracy correctly, it requires to prepare the society to understand what is mean by democracy. It apply away from loyalty to the sect, nationality or family. The democracy target must be lead the society towards progress and development.

Dear Nizar,

Thank you for the wise poem."While there is life, there is hope"

A.S.Pushkin in Vadim Rumynskiy's translation

"How many blissful revelations

The spirit of enlightment hides!

And then experience born of lapses

And genius antinomy-wise

And chance, the heavenly inventor"

http://pranava.livejournal.com/3510.html

the climate of antisemitism was exported to the local Association of Hungarian Students as well. This happened much before the closure to Jews of the German academic market under the Brown Plague (as of April 1933, officialised in the law euphemistically entitled “Against the Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities”). Hungarian academic antisemitism may be qualified as restrained, if not moderate, at least in the sense that it never turned into murderous violence, unlike in the four Romanian centers of advanced learning, especially in Iasi and Czernowitz.

http://mek.oszk.hu/11100/11109/11109.pdf

Hello Qasim and all, for me I have a certain hypothesis that causes me to hope, and as I continue to think deeply about the research and read more review on it, my mind gets more sensitive to the ways on how to develop more research questions or more hypotheses.  When I compare the final with the beginning, I am amazed that a tiny idea could spark off such a lot of better ideas.  But of course, I sacrifice a lot of effort, energy and time, and remove myself from distractions, until the research paper is all written.

The preliminary work results strengthen the hope to do more!

For the first time usually have to gain experience to gain experience of the stages and work experience is good and effective

Positive feedback is more effective for motivating goal pursuit than negative feedback because it increases outcome expectancy of the goal and perceived self-efficacy of the pursuer. Positive feedback increases people’s confidence that they are able to pursue their goals, leading people to expect successful goal attainment.

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ayelet.fishbach/research/FEF%20Compass%202010.pdf

As for me - my hope. But I suppose, there is a gender/national/etc specifics...   

The first research results, preliminary data, raw data, first publications should be shared. Access to research data and access to research publications will raise different issues and concerns among stakeholders. Research has no bounds. Single labour market for researchers is a MUST. 

So, it will help researchers and their institutions in terms of budgeting, infrastructures..., cooperation! "

"There are still significant barriers to access in researchers' information channels".

http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/pdf/preliminaryresults-eraconsultation_en.pdf

I think motivation is in the research itself. A bad research or investigation answers to a bad motivation, and reciprocally.

I think that scientific interest is the first in the motivation of researches.