Quotes About Motivation

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

I still can't say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don't think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

Qualquer movimento é melhor do que a inércia, pois a inspiração sempre será atraída para o movimento.

Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you

You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master, but something far more interesting—its partner—and that the two of you are working together toward something intriguing and worthwhile.

He realized that "failure has a function. It asks you whether you really want to go on making things.

I do what I do because I like doing it.

Inspiration is always trying to work with me. So I sit there and I work, too.

Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us.

All the good ideas seem daunting at first.

Your own reasons to create are reason enough.

Así pues, ¿de dónde se saca la inspiración para trabajar cuando tu pasión decae? Ahí es donde entra la curiosidad.

Ibelieve that inspiration will always try its best to work with you—but if you are not ready or available, it may indeed choose to leave you and to search for a different human collaborator.

May I also urge you to forget about passion? Perhaps you are surprised to hear this from me, but I am somewhat against passion. Or at least, I am against the preaching of passion. I don't believe in telling people, "All you need to do is to follow your passion, and everything will be fine." I think this can be an unhelpful and even cruel suggestion at times.

Hearing this announcement, your soul will mobilize accordingly. It will mobilize ecstatically, in fact, because this is what your soul was born for. (Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years.) But

feel sometimes like my genius sits in the corner and watches me at my desk, day after day, week after week, month after month, just to be sure I really mean it, just to be sure I'm really giving this creative endeavor my wholehearted effort.

Because this is the other side of the contract with creativity: If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

What I'm saying is this: If my plan is to sit around waiting for another such unadulterated and impassioned creative visitation, I may be waiting for a very long time. So I don't sit around waiting to write until my genius decides to pay me a visit. If anything, I have come to believe that my genius spends a lot of time waiting around for me—waiting to see if I'm truly serious about this line of work.

Chop up that failure and use it for bait to try to catch another project.

when courage dies, creativity dies with it.