Quotes About Motivation

Fulfillment—the Third Ingredient Essential to Producing Passion. Fulfillment is the third ingredient necessary to produce a passion. The good news is that you don't have to do anything extra to develop this ingredient. It happens automatically as you complete each step toward your dream. Each time you complete a task, step, or goal, you think to yourself, "Wow! I did it! I'm that much

Dreams without clearly defined goals, and goals without clearly defined steps, will never be achieved expeditiously or efficiently, and will rarely be achieved at all.

A lo largo de sus vidas, cada una de estas personas habló de la importancia de tener una visión clara de lo que querían conseguir antes de ponerse en marcha en la búsqueda de sus consecuciones.

If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round. Unless we invert this equation, much of our capacity for intrinsic motivation starts to shut down. We lose touch with our passion and become less than what we could be and that feeling never really goes away.

The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

It was clear from talking to them, that what kept them motivated was the quality of the experience they felt when they were involved with the activity. The feeling didn't come when they were relaxing, when they were taking drugs or alcohol, or when they were consuming the expensive privileges of wealth. Rather, it often involved painful, risky, difficult activities that stretched the person's capacity and involved an element of novelty and discovery.

Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness—one where we feel our best and perform our best—it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

The basic requirements were sky-high intelligence and unquenchable ambition. A more elusive criterion was one's Googliness.

If necessity is the mother of invention, drug use is surely its can-do father.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Are you paralyzed with fear? That's a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Use the hook, you

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

What motivates people to seek out dubious or frankly bogus treatments? Diverse motivations are likely to be at play, including imitation, conformity, desperation, and indiscriminate reliance on authority figures. According to one survivor of the Spanish flu pandemic: My mother used goose grease and turpentine mixed like a salve, sometimes she made a poultice out of it. I think it really helped. She told me it did, so I had to believe it. (Pettigrew, 1983, p. 120)

All you need is the will and the skill

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

Her anger was the fuel she used to keep going.

Every day is a brand new day!

Sometimes the muse sits on my shoulder, but most often not I have a devil of a job tempting her back!

Lily could almost feel Barbara's itching desire to take her in hand, dress her up, give her a purpose in life.