Quotes About Motivation

Once I got 13 or 14 years old, I started watching a lot of videos on YouTube and NBA.com and I started following the NBA ball.

I spent five years watching every Noel Gallagher video that was on YouTube.

I feel like my 'paycheck' being cut on YouTube was almost like a wake-up call to be like, 'Hey, don't be conformable, expand the business.'

As soon as I was getting YouTube comments and hit 100 subscribers, I was thinking 'maybe there's something to this. I could keep going. I don't know how far I can really push it just reviewing random indie bands on YouTube, but it seems to have more gas in the tank.'

When I've stopped doing workouts and YouTube videos, I want this content that I've created to be used in schools all around the world. This is what I want to be remembered for.

I used to spend hours on the laptop watching free kicks on YouTube - again and again. You obviously learn a thing or two.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

What can't change is the zeal and passion I have for work.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude, and gratitude comes by just backing up a little and realizing how much you've sinned against God.

I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.

You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn't get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They turned to the guitar as a sure-fire aphrodisiac. And most of the time, it did the trick.

I love getting things done. That's why I spend several hours a day reading productivity articles. And when the day is done, I bookmark the ones I didn't get to for later. I learned that trick in a productivity article.

When I started my career, I never looked at myself as one to be inspirational, but as I continued to grow, I've met so many different people who ask, 'How do you do it? You make it look easy.' But it's not easy. I have certain tricks and tips I use every day that have been working for me.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

I've always thought one of the tricks of being an actor for a long time is keeping yourself interested once you've figured out how to pay the rent.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

I don't think there'd be a Tina Fey now if I hadn't tried to look good in the beginning.