Quotes About Motivation

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'

I watch a lot of players. Guys like Kenneth Faried, his motor. I'm trying to take that and put that into my game.

I think there is something to be said for churning things out. Motown churned out hits and there is nothing wrong with that.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'

Passion is the motto of all my actions.

My battalion motto in the Marines was, 'Whatever it takes,' and I'm going to do whatever it takes to help win back the House in 2018.

Los incentivos son relevantes porque la mayoría de las personas tienden a hacer más por su beneficio que por el beneficio de otros. Los incentivos hacen que ambas consideraciones coincidan. Una camarera nos sirve comida no porque tengamos hambre, sino porque su salario y propinas dependen de ello. Ante la ausencia de estos incentivos, el servicio en los restaurantes de la Unión Soviética era notoriamente malo.

Las políticas económicas necesitan ser analizadas según los incentivos que crean, y no según las esperanzas que las inspiraron.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.

But as we've said before, there is great power in all of us, if only we channel that power into action.

Selling is persuading and influencing people to take action.

We sell ideas and solutions to people, and people sell our products and services to themselves.

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

Psychologists call this "motivated reasoning." Motivated reasoning is thinking through a topic with the aim, conscious or unconscious, of reaching a particular kind of conclusion. In a football game, we see the fouls committed by the other team but overlook the sins of our own side. We are more likely to notice what we want to notice.11

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' – Upton Sinclair, American writer

Temos demasiado pouca diversão na maioria da aprendizagem formal e as pessoas estão ansiosas por isso. Se não conseguimos inspirar curiosidade é provável que estejamos no caminho errado.

Hoping is what people do when they're too lazy to do anything else. People

You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.