Josh Fox Quotes

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Josh Fox

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• My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Health
  • Myself
  • motivation

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • America
  • Feeling

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

• Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Money
  • Sports
  • motivation

• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that, for warnings to work, it's not enough for them to be delivered. They must also overcome that human tendency to pause; they must trigger a series of effective actions, mobilizing the informal networks that we depend on in a crisis.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Crisis

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Daily
  • motivation

• You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Money
  • Education

• I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Career
  • motivation

• There's always motivation coming into Majors. If you can't get up and get excited to win one of these, then you probably shouldn't be playing golf.

  

  Jason Dufner
  • Up
  • Golf
  • motivation

• My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

  

  Maurice Allais
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Hope
  • motivation

• I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Writing
  • School
  • Learning

• I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Bible
  • Alive

• Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • World
  • Dream
  • Strong

• The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Long
  • House
  • White

• Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Control
  • Force
  • Persian Gulf region

• I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

  

  Josh Fox
  • motivation
  • Crisis
  • Interests