Quotes About Motivation

Most scientists are bored by what they have already discovered. It is ignorance that drives them on.

cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.

My dad used to say, you young never carry your weight.

While motivation can play a significant role in teens' behavior, it's important to recognize that some behaviors reflect a skill weakness rather than a lack of motivation.

First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.

Repacking is all about the why; it's

about the magic longevity pill of purpose? To age well also requires that we exercise our sense of purpose. And that

The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

As a rule of thumb, it is best to just admit that there is always one action you can take for your creativity daily.

For example, if you remembered the smell of fresh-baked bread, a visit to a bakery could be a wonderful Artist Date.) Never Too Late The joke runs like this: Question: Do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to play the piano? Answer: The same age you'll be if you don't. A year from now you will wish you had started today. —KAREN LAMB

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

By its very nature, discipline is rooted in self-admiration. (Think of discipline as a battery, useful but short-lived.) We admire ourselves for being so wonderful. The discipline itself, not the creative outflow, becomes the point.

We procrastinate because we think we must write our entire project. But to break procrastination, we need only write our first thought. Our second, third, and fourth thoughts follow. Soon we are writing, and procrastination is a thing of our past.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't ... your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you are doing is just plain junk ... stop judging yourself and just let yourself write.

It is very difficult to complain about a situation morning after morning, month after month, without being moved to constructive action.

Anger is not the action itself. It is action's invitation.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. LES BROWN

Sloth, apathy, and despair are the enemy. Anger is not. Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend.

Creativity requires action, and part of that action must be physical.

What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favourite perversion?

Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.

the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

You've got what it takes, Billie Jo. Look at the size of those hands, he'd say. Look at how tall.