David McClelland Quotes
Understanding human motivation ought to be a good thing. It should help us to find out what we really want so that we can avoid chasing rainbows that are not for us. It should open up opportunities for self-development if we apply motivational principles to pursuing our goals in life.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
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If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.
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The Brothers Karamazov is the most magnificent novel ever written; the episode of the Grand Inquisitor, one of the peaks in the literature of the world, can hardly be valued too highly.
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I don't worry cause, everything's gonna be alright.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.
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Understanding human motivation ought to be a good thing. It should help us to find out what we really want so that we can avoid chasing rainbows that are not for us. It should open up opportunities for self-development if we apply motivational principles to pursuing our goals in life.
