Quotes About Motivation

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

I try to read and write something interesting every day.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

If you're not writing, you're wronging.

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

Go on Louis, jump up, " I'd say every day for the first three months. From the vacant look on his face, I may as well have asked him to solve a Rubik cube puzzle.

There will be days that you don't want to dress up and if you have some decent looking athletic wear, you can give the illusion that you've just been working out, as opposed to giving up on life.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.