Motivated Quotes
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
Barack Obama
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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
Tavi Gevinson
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Clarice: To most people, it's obvious that the Whitewater allegations and the sexual harassment suit are politically motivated. And everyone else is too jaded to care if Bill fucks his cat.Raffi: Fucks!Toni: Do you want the honor of recording that under 'Baby's first word,' or shall I?
Alison Bechdel
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
K. Eric Drexler
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Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.
David Elkind
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I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
Christie Hefner
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The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
Clayton M. Christensen
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In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.
Kai Greene
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Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.
Jeff Ament
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With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.
W. Clement Stone
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The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
Vivek Wadhwa
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We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
Clara Zetkin
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For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
R. C. Sproul
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Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.
Amy Chua
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My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.
Phil Jackson
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With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
Camille Paglia
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It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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Act by inspiration, motivated by love.
Russell M. Nelson
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I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.
Jennifer Doudna
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I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.
Allen West
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I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
Lisa Bonet
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I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to be successful in my own sport.
Ali Krieger
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There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
Wendy Kopp
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I was never motivated by money.
Neymar