Quotes About Motivation

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

But I still think it's part of the skill of being a coach or manager - to know who responds to what. And some players do respond to a rollicking. If it needs to be done, you have to do it. As a player, that wasn't necessarily me.

The fact that I can come in and give energy to the team, no matter my skill level, I have that. That's an NBA ready skill.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.

The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.

My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

I think every woman should have the skills and confidence to be able to earn a living. A working woman is happy because she has goals beyond herself and her needs.

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

I actually ended up in fashion as opposed to sport because I needed the money. And it turned out that it tapped all my skills.

I keep my head up. I'm comfortable in my skin. I want to see progression in life, with myself and with others around me.

Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.

One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.

Even people back home, when I went to the NBA they were questioning whether I was good enough, I'm skinny, I don't have outside shot. As a player, sometimes that criticism, you just have to take that and try to convert it into motivation.

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.

Discipline will only teach the techniques - a great teacher gives discipline, motivation and love

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.