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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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
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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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My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.
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In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.
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I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.
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I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they're going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will give back 10 times as much to you.
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When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
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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.
