motivation Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Your longevity in the sport is governed by how you live in between the fights.
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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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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
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Russell Barkley similarly describes the primary problem in ADD as a deficit in the motivation system, which makes it impossible to stay on task for any length of time unless there is constant feedback, constant reward.
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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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Jim jumped well and will continue to improve. Jim needs no motivation. He motivates himself enough.
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Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
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But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.
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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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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.
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Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.
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Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.
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Motivations are too tangled and complex.
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The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.
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Those who believe in climate change, as I do, I think it's also fair to say that they are more receptive to confirming evidence than disconfirming evidence. They happen to be right, but their motivations are in play also.
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Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.
