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Quotes About Motivation

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.
~ Paul Buchheit
I just can't get excited about money as a motivation in a film. It leaves me cold.
~ Simon Beaufoy
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
~ Vladimir Putin
The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
~ Oscar Isaac
I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.
~ Steve Forbert
Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.
~ Tracy Morgan
I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America.
~ Daniel Boulud
It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.
~ Tony Dungy
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.
~ Lily Cole
I'd much rather leave £2bn to charity, or £3bn or £4bn, than £1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.
~ John Caudwell
In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
~ Becky G
You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.
~ Andy Weir
My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.
~ Henrik Fisker
My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.
~ Rose McIver
The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
~ Xavier Dolan
I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.
~ Peter Landesman
I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is. I was a little bit different.
~ Liev Schreiber
Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.
~ Jason Day
I don't need any more motivation. I'm fighting Canelo Alvarez. If that can't get me motivated, then I'm in the wrong sport.
~ Liam Smith
My motivation at the moment is around knowing how it feels to turn a business around, and I can't wait to have that feeling again.
~ Steve Easterbrook
My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?
~ Kawhi Leonard
There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
~ Angela Duckworth