Quotes About Motivation

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

Meeting kids who feel inspired by my story, it means so much to me.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

If I am convinced with the storyline and get an opportunity to play a powerful role, I would.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

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

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

I don't care what we're quote-unquote selling; we're about inspiring people through storytelling.

I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

Getting up at 6 A.M. to run is something that keeps you on the straight and narrow.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

When you lose a game, there's obviously disappointment, and you want a game straight away.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'

I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.