Barry Alvarez Quotes
We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Of course managers win ball games.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
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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.
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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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Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.
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You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.
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If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.
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If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.
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We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.
