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Quotes About Motivation

she'd gotten in the mail: the belief that she was
~ Danielle Steel
7. Get a drawing buddy. Or join an online group like Everyday Matters on Facebook.
~ Danny Gregory
I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because for an artist that desire arises with no conscious effort- like lust.
~ Unknown
Underachievement was always the best way to meet targets and get the bonus. The fact that bonuses were paid monthly also kept everyone focused on the present, while innovation is about making sacrifices today in order to have more tomorrow. Even
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
El éxito económico de los países difiere debido a las diferencias entre sus instituciones, a las reglas que influyen en cómo funciona la economía y a los incentivos que motivan a las personas.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Simplemente ocurre que no queremos hacer esfuerzos innecesarios, siendo la palabra a subrayar «innecesarios», no «esfuerzos».
~ Unknown
Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there'd be no sense to it. That's the fix I am in. I don't know anything else, don't enjoy anything else, don't want to know or enjoy anything else. You can't weight that against any sum of money. Money's good stuff. I haven't anything against it.
~ Dashiell Hammett
You have to DO what you want to BE!
~ Dave Anderson
Existing, period – that is what drives men to irrational acts.
~ Dave Eggers
We want everyone to follow their dreams, their hearts (aren't they bursting, like ours?); we want them doing things that we will find interesting.
~ Dave Eggers
The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived to do more. Dorsetta is married, a mother of three, and manages a restaurant; she does more than hang in there. I have a low opinion of this expression, Hang in there.
~ Dave Eggers
Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it's some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?
~ Dave Eggers
Alan was feeling strong. He did two push-ups and felt stronger still.
~ Dave Eggers
They brought you here so you could have choices," Ghassan said. "And you're blowing it. If you want to do something different when you grow up, you're going to have to get your shit together.
~ Dave Eggers
Am I just curious? Or do I want this? And if I did want this, what sort of person am I?
~ Dave Eggers
Sometimes," Oisín said, "people simply do things. They get an idea and do it, and it's not tied up with any love or childhood trauma. If we believe there's a dramatic origin story for every human endeavor, we deprive our species of the ability to simply conjure an idea. To just make stuff and do things.
~ Dave Eggers
Something made them the way they are. Things do happen for a reason.
~ Dave Pelzer
I made a promise to myself that if I came out of my situation alive, I had to make something of myself.
~ Dave Pelzer
Whatever you do, do something positive.
~ Dave Pelzer
Thought is useful when it motivates action and a hindrance when it substitutes for action. —Bill Raeder
~ David Allen
But sometimes I have to get out of my comfort zone to stay motivated to do excellent work over the long term.
~ David Allen
Have you envisioned wild success about anything lately?
~ David Allen
It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.
~ David Allen
Since the publication of my first two books, Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything, I've had the opportunity to engage
~ David Allen