Ellis Paul Torrance Quotes
One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.
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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.
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I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
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I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
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I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.
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I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.
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With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
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Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will.
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One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.
