Quotes About Motivation

If you have a vision, do something with it.

It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.

this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd

a good number may have had momentary awakenings, done a little soul-searching, added more to their lists—and then neglected to tick things off. People tend to dream without doing, death remaining theoretical.

Therapists tell their patients: Follow your envy—it shows you what you want.

When people delude themselves into believing they have all the time in the world, she's noticed, they get lazy.

Follow your envy - it shows what you want

every decision they make is based on two things: fear and love.

People tend to dream without doing, death remaining theoretical.

Whereas Freud believed that people are driven to seek pleasure and avoid pain (his famous pleasure principle), Frankl maintained that people's primary drive isn't toward pleasure but toward finding meaning in their lives.

They may not be able to imagine their depression lifting anytime soon, but they don't need to. Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one.

I hadn't considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you'll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.