Quotes About Motivation

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful.

Competition between men is a fuel that's useful to us. We have to be careful that it doesn't tell the same story over too many times, but it's amazing how durable that story is.

Having goals can be useful, but don't lose sight of how great you are and how much you can help yourself and others right now.

You need the life of a champion. It's always useful to have people around you who can help you doing that.

Even when you work from home, getting yourself dressed is the first step. I often find there are days where I'll be in my pajamas all day. I feel like a useless human being.

We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

I know that I have to run all the game and don't stop or I will be useless to the team.

Confidence is very simple. It is the stuff that turns thoughts into action. Thoughts without action are pretty useless.

When competitors try to innovate, I think it puts more pressure on us. The only thing is, we've got to work harder. They work two hours, we work three hours... Ultimately this is good for the end user.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines.

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.

I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

Some people have that school of thought where fitness isn't enjoyable, but we're making it enjoyable, I think, by making it more fun, challenging, and engaging rather than this boring thing that you have to do. It's about using technology and data to change this experience.

Post 10th grade, I came to the northern half of the country. I realized that the usual education did not excite me at all because I felt how will understanding trajectory motions in chemistry help me solve real-life problems?