Quotes About Motivation

If we were the last person on earth, would we still show up at the studio, the rehearsal hall, the laboratory?

I've read a dozen different versions of Stanislavski's famous Three Questions, i.e. the queries an actor must ask him- or herself before playing any scene. Here's my version: Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want? The second two are pretty easy. It's the first that's the killer.

Procrastination is the most common manifestation of Resistance because it's the easiest to rationalize. We don't tell ourselves, I'm never going to write my symphony. Instead we say, I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

A commander's role is to model arete, excellence, before his men. One need not thrash them to greatness; only hold it out before them. They will be compelled by their own nature to emulate it.

Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance.

Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I. I'm

she doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in anticipation of its apparition.

We don't tell ourselves, I'm never going to write my symphony. Instead we say, I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

When we commit fully to our calling, we acknowledge the forces of inspiration that we hope to summon to our aid.

It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet. You shame the angels who watch over you and you spite the Almighty, who created you and only you with your unique gifts, for the sole purpose of nudging the human race one millimeter farther along its path back to God.

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember

M]ission statements are treated as a substitute for leadership, and there's no substitute for leadership.

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boredom is a self-inflicted wound. Heal thyself.

just for you.

These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all.

When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.

You know what they say about living well as the best revenge. I did well because it was the one defense I had. Escape has been the motivating force in my life. Getting away from him, getting away from her, putting that household behind me. The funny this is, I haven't moved an inch, and the harder I run, the faster I keep slipping back to them...There are laws for everything except the harm families do.

I like lines, I earn mine.

There were days that autumn when I had little energy to write or paint or even read. On days like that I felt like somebody had switched off the lights inside.

Is this idea of yours to help the Cuttingmasters, or is it really to advance your career?" With a knowing smile, she said, "Is there any reason I can't do both? That is what you have been doing all your life. Ambition is not a dirty word for men.

You have to believe in yourself.

A leader leads by example not by force.

He will win whose army is animated by the spirit throughout all its ranks.