Quotes About Motivation

De ce nu ai spus adev?rul, Mircea? Numai adev?rul nu era de-ajuns? Ai scris pentru bani? Da, pentru asta ai facut-o - acesta este specificul Occidentului, unde c?r?ile se vând pentru voluptate, nu pentru dragoste.

You are what your deep driving desire is As your deep driving desire is, so is your will As your will is so is your deed As your deed is so is your destiny.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Malcolm Folley

Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

The common signs do not bestow the driving power of the cardinal types or the inflexibility of the fixed signs. There is likely to be less high ambition or intensive continuity.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

I think one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

but doing something was so much better than staying huddled up inside my own prison.

People become violent because they want something.

I look at every book as a self-help book.

willing to gamble that war would make them richer.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

At the rate these illuminations appear, it will no doubt take me a long time to gather the material for even one single book. For my inspired double-- this phantom builder of sentences who maliciously impedes my work to dictate his clever discoveries-- always comes at those (infrequent) hours of his choosing, drafts (at best) three little pages, then goes away.

Het is altijd mijn overtuiging geweest dat je iemand brood moet geven als hij honger heeft, maar hem zelf voor het beleg moet laten zorgen. Dat stimuleert het initiatief.

And even in my most carnal desires, oriented always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognized as their primary motive an idea, an idea for which I would have laid down my life, at the innermost core of which, as in my day-dreams while I sat reading all afternoon in the garden at Combray, lay the notion of perfection.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself.