Quotes About Motivation

Being able to play together, we're going to motivate each other; we're going to help each other out. I think it would be something special.

One of the reason I did two sports because I wanted to do something special or different.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Confidence is a funny thing, and sometimes that's all you need is just that little bit to elevate you to the next level.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

Most bodybuilders are somewhat extravert so they probably enjoy that whole thing of people looking at them all the time and being on stage. I was an introvert and not really interested in that, I was doing it for myself.

Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because I now do know where we're going, and I know what's motivating these people, why they were here, and therefore, I have some good idea how they got there, and so I can fill in the missing chunks somewhat more easily.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

If you work hard and you're somewhat talented, you'll be successful in this league.

Always dress like you're going somewhere better.

At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?

I know how lazy I am. So if I have to go somewhere else I can't get to easily, I talk myself out of it.