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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I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.
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Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
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I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.
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You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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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.
