Quotes About Motivation

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those games really made me realize how much work I had to do and inspired me to work harder for the Sydney Olympics.

The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.

The 1982 Asian Games champion M.D. Valsamma's coach gave a statement in the media that if Valsamma had some 15 days training on a synthetic track, she would beat me. I was very interested in the challenge. I kept that paper cutting under my bed and used to read it often.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

My motivation is to help ensure all young people of color live up to their potential and succeed in the face of the systemic inequality that remains as real today as ever.

A full stomach can't run. At

I did hit him for a reason,' he said. 'What you're talking about is a justification. I'm not saying it was the right thing to do. I'm just saying I did it for a reason. My own stupid reason.' I stared at him. 'So what was the reason?' He looked down and shrugged. 'Same reason I do most things. I wanted to see what would happen.

Listening to what motivates employees helps them to excel in what they do best, thus creating a happier, more fulfilling work environment. By

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

WHEN YOU SEE HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE LEFT, YOU TEND TO DO MORE WITH THE TIME YOU HAVE NOW.

Blessed are those who mourn…" This is the first step on the path of blessedness: sadness, discomfort, inner discontent, regret, misery, depression… mourning. If you are happy and carefree, why and how would you ever be motivated to do deep inner work – to heal, to evolve?