Norman R. Augustine Quotes
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From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.
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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.
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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
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It always amazes me when I see young people with raw talent and passion.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
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I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.
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As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
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With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.
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My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
