Quotes About Motivation

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'

A bit of a verbal challenge actually makes me switch on a bit more and gets me in for the fight.

You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn't a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well.

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'

It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.'

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're going, you can always start from there and work your way back.

On every verse I do, I'm going to try to improve myself in some type of way.

My supplements are similar to my training - I always commit to being a better version of myself.

I am all about self-improvement and becoming the best version of myself, it could be in my career, my finance, or just life in general.

Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.

Try to be the best version of yourself.

Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.

Man, my little boy wanted to hear some new music. So it was like, I can't just play all my music around him, so I got to go ahead and make a whole project so I can get it clean, and have a clean version of all the songs just so he can listen to my music, you feel me?

I concentrate on myself and make sure the best version of me turns up, and if that's the case, I believe I beat anyone in the world.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

We must have the courage to write those first words, stringing them together and perhaps stumbling, but staying in motion.

We can't motivate them by deluging them with more terminology or someone else's bulleted lists. We can't motivate them to revise their writing by stapling a rubric or checklist to their paper. We can't motivate them by simply hanging some posters on the wall. We must facilitate writing behaviors.