Quotes About Motivation

James Patterson

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James Patterson

still didn't have any idea how I was going to pull this whole thing off, but it almost didn't matter. I just couldn't wait to start figuring it out. In fact—and please don't tell anyone I said this—for the first time in my life, I was actually looking forward to going back to school.

James Patterson

no dream comes true unless you wake up and go to work.

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

By Friday, I could tell something was missing. Just breaking the rules by itself wasn't going to cut it. I needed something more. I needed a boost in my game.

James Patterson

James Patterson

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James Patterson

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.

I love what I do, and I'm not doing anything either for money or for the sake of some unfulfilled ambition.

Over 90% of people go home at the end of the day feeling unfulfilled by their work, and I won't stop working until that statistic is reversed - until over 90% of people go home and can honestly say, 'I love what I do.'

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.