Quotes About Motivation

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

If a business isn't growing between 5 and 10 percent annually, the good, highly talented people won't get the responsibility and the financial rewards they want, and they'll leave.

awake at night?" The response is practically unanimous: Leaders worry about creating a sense of urgency in their organizations and operating quickly in an increasingly complex world. They want to create strong teams that are primed to handle any hurdle that comes their way and

You can't expect people to think and act like owners," he said, "unless they understand how what they do creates economic value. And when people are taught how they not only create economic value but that it's constantly measured and evaluated and that they stand to share in the profits, then thinking and acting like the owner becomes very easy.

The main job of the leader is to be a destination expert, to let everybody know where the company is going and make certain that everyone understands and is willing to embrace constant change in order to get there.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Todo el mundo obliga a todo el mundo, no tanto a hacer lo que no quiere, sino más bien lo que no sabe si quiere, porque casi nadie sabe lo que no quiere, y menos aún, lo que quiere

Sólo el primer paso cuesta. Quizá se podría decir eso de todo, o de la mayoría de los esfuerzos y de lo que se hace con desagrado o repugnancia o reservas, es muy poco lo que se acomete sin ninguna reserva, casi siempre hay algo que nos induce a no actuar y a no dar ese paso, a no salir de casa y no movernos, a no dirigirnos a nadie y a evitar que otros nos hablen, nos miren, nos digan.

The soldier doesn't usually act on his own initiative, he doesn't harbour feelings of hatred or resentment or jealousy, he isn't motivated by long-held desires or personal ambition; the only motivating force is a vague, rhetorical, empty patriotism, for those soldiers, that is, who are moved by such feelings or allow themselves to be convinced.

Next, we need to explore our assumptions about the other person's intentions. To what extent are our feelings based on an untested assumption about their intentions? Might the other person have acted unintentionally, or from multiple and conflicting intentions? How does our view of their intentions affect how we feel? And what about our own intentions? What was motivating us? How might our actions have impacted them? Does that change how we feel?

People align their actions with implicit incentives, not official rhetoric.

If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

Go the extra mile, it's rarely crowded.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.

When I have a mission, it gives me something to focus on.

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You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is "ride the wave.

This is why Ralph Waldo Emerson said that, "Nothing great has ever been achieved without enthusiasm."2