Quotes About Motivation

You get it? There isn't any industrial research group of any size that isn't trying to develop a space-warp engine, and Consolidated and U.S. Robots have the lead on the field with our super robot-brains. Now that they've managed to foul theirs up, we have a clear field. That's the nub, the . . . uh . . . motivation. It will take them six years at least to build another and they're sunk, unless they can break ours, too, with the same problem.

Enlightened self-interest' they call it.

A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.

La orice vârst? trebuie s? ai un scop în via??, aÈ™a se vindec? multe rele.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

A slave lacks incentives; for him it is better to work slowly and badly, since his effort benefits only the master, but free people work hard to save and get ahead,, that is their incentive.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

A donde el corazón se inclina, el pie camina

A cualquier edad es preciso un propósito en la vida. Es la mejor cura contra muchos males»

Suggestion works miracles.

La novela se hace con trabajo, el cuento con inspiración.

Qué enciende la pasión? La propia fantasía, supongo, ¿Qué la paga? La rutina, si uno se descuida, la pobreza. (De biografía Vida y espíritus)

You have a lot to do so stop feeling sorry for yourself, drink some water, and start writing - Clara the Clairvoyant

Does staying alive not only for yourself, but also because someone else expects you to, double the life force? Perhaps. Perhaps. Rachel

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?'

My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.

Led Zeppelin was pretty much what made me pick up drum sticks.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

I always think about the fact that PewDiePie, who has tens of millions of followers, started with zero. All of my favorite creators started with zero. And all it takes is one video to dive deep, and you are officially a YouTuber. So you've got to make that first video. It's not going to be your best, but you will learn as you go.

'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

From a mental point of view, as I've had to rebuild my life from zero, it has been crucial I've never given up, that I've set achievable targets, not things that couldn't possibly be achieved.