motivation Quotes
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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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Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
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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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I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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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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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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The motivation is doing for doing, not [for] having done.
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I want my daughter to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.
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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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Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.
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Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.
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I truly believe motivation is internal, but there are so many things that happen externally, and it's hard to not pick that up as motivation.
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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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I hurt my hand on his head. He has a very hard head.
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The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.
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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
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Do you depend on others for motivation - or can you motivate yourself?
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Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.
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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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