Quotes About Motivation

To all the young generation in the Philippines, please dream high.

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

I suppose the thing I'm quite pleased about is that I am, I would hope, a role model for girls and younger women who are thinking about doing science.

If players are pleased to come off the pitch, that says they are not interested and don't want to be on there.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

There is a handful of drivers and teams that have a shot to win every single week, and there is no reason we can't be among that group. That's our goal, and if you're in that position enough, it will go your way plenty and you'll get your fair share.

Apart from my dad, James is the most driven man I've ever met. They both have the attitude that there's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

You always feel like you've got something to prove, whether it be to yourself or somebody else. I can think of plenty of people along the way telling me I'll be nothing, working at McDonald's, doing things like that. The whole time, you're just trying to prove them wrong.

There are plenty of players who have a lot of talent. It's all about getting the best out of yourself and you'll have to work very hard to achieve that.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

I'm not in the sport to make money, but that's a big plus.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.