motivation Quotes
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.
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Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
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I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
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Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
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You're always a work in progress. Flexibility. Personality. Motivation. There's always room to improve.
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The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.
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Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?
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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
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It's the best motivation to save for retirement that we've seen in America. Everybody should be in the Roth game if they can.
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While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
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[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.
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Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
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If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
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Progress is the ultimate motivation.
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Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
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My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.
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For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.
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No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
