motivation Quotes
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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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It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
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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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It's not Beirut or Bosnia.
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It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!
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To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.
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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
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Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
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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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[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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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.
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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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Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
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The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
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If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
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I hurt my hand on his head. He has a very hard head.
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To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.
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Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
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A friend of mine, Derek Simmons, who's been on the podcast, said, "If more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with perfect dads." It comes down to motivation and incentives. If it isn't a punishment or a reward, then it's just talk.
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
