Quotes About Motivation

What factors make you decide to take a particular role? The actor always answers: Because I'm afraid of it.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now.

I, on the other hand, believe that the source of creativity is found on the same plane of reality as Resistance.

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

The awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. Once you make your break, you can't turn around for your buddy who catches his trouser leg on the barbed wire. The best thing you can do for that friend (and he'd tell you this himself, if he really is your friend) is to get over the wall and keep motating.

Fear saps passion.

any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit Resistance.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

I hold Olympic records for procrastination. I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem.

Maugham reckoned another, deeper truth: that by performing the mundane physical act of sitting down and starting to work, he set in motion a mysterious but infallible sequence of events that would produce inspiration, as surely as if the goddess had synchronized her watch with his.

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence. Those

So if you're paralyzed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

Technically, the professional takes money. Technically, the pro plays for pay. But in the end, he does it for love.

It's not the writing part that's hard, it's the sitting down to write. What's keeps us from sitting down, is resistance.

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What

The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building.

it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

Resistance never sleeps. It never slackens and it never goes away. The dragon must be slain anew every morning. However, as with anything in life, if you've succeeded in the past, at least you know that you can succeed.

When we've got David Lean's eight sequences, we're home except for one thing: The actual work. Cover the Canvas One rule for first full working drafts: get them done ASAP.

Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him.

The inner critic? His ass is not permitted in the building. Set forth without fear and without self-censorship. When you hear that voice in your head, blow it off. This draft is not being graded. There will be no pop quiz.

Resistance will unfailingly point to true north. The action it most wants us to stop, we can let resistance use to guide us. The more important, the more resistance.

Procrastination is the most common manifestation of resistance.