Quotes About Motivation

I guess sci-fi was like my candy growing up. My dad always thought it was important for me to read an hour or two every night. And if I got stuck or didn't want to read, sci-fi was sort of the thing you'd give me to spur me on to read that evening.

If you experience that feeling of being in a rut in your life, then something's not right. A lot of people who feel that way don't take the time to say, 'O.K., well, what am I doing? Is that what I want to be doing? What is it making me feel this way?' You have to identify what specifically is making you feel stuck.

If you are stuck at a dead-end job, or you know your friends are bringing you down, the time to act is now. You don't know how much time you've got left.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.

From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

One of the hidden benefits of me being a student manager at Kentucky was me having the responsibility of driving Rick Pitino to his motivational speaking engagements.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

I wasn't a great student; I was lazy. But when I was in sociology class, I listened.

By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do.

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

I was a horrible student.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I was a good student, but I didn't like school.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

I was a good student, but I was the biggest procrastinator.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with music, it didn't really interest me.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.