Quotes About Motivation

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

There is no point in being lazy.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

I know what my purpose is. I know what I need to do out there on the floor. Sometimes you won't score a bunch of points, but breathing confidence into the people around you is the biggest key, the biggest role.

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.

I skipped class a lot.

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

I was always good at gym! Gym classes were good, but school really wasn't my thing, but I did it, got through it. It's definitely important.

When other students would study after classes, I would go out again to work out and then study in the night.

I never could make it to morning classes. I never felt like I needed to do it. I remember being in class, and saying, I don't care about this, I don't need to know this.'

You know, 'Paid in Full' is a classic album, man. It kind of got me to where I am now, so I can never get tired of 'Paid in Full.'

It is not about classical career questions but about questions for your life. Those are the questions that drive you on as a human being.

Find a group of friends that are going to push you and want you to do better whether it's in the classroom or on the court.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.