Quotes About Motivation

I had a very big chip on my shoulder - I won't even lie to you. I had a very large chip on my shoulder.

I always want to find something to get you to play with a chip on your shoulder.

Any time you get into that chip on the shoulder, trying to prove that I can do this and I can do that, it takes away from what you're capable of doing and who you are as a player, as well as a person.

I think I have a little bit of a chip on my shoulder, but I think that's good.

I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder.

You've always got to have a chip on your shoulder. No. 1, I'm a small player, so I've always had that chip on my shoulder my whole life.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted to be scientists or astronomers or engineers.

I never chose something just for the money.

Growing up, I wanted to be Chris Evert.

You didn't choose Christian music because it's more beneficial. It doesn't pay more. It doesn't make you more famous. There's some reason why you came to this. What changed your life at some point?

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

I find inspiration for my works of art in my studio and in the squared circle from all sorts of places.

I personally am not very interested in awards or the awards circuit.

It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart.

'Shadow Hero' was my first superhero story. I don't know why it took so long.

Beyonce's 'Freedom' - I listen to that when I am suiting up and getting into superhero mode.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

Growing up, I always liked Catwoman and Superman; they inspired me.

All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.

Batman's got this whole cloaked 'man of mystery' thing around him and represents a wish fulfillment. He's more driven than Superman yet is also very human.

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.