Quotes About Motivation

I wouldn't be the performer I am if everyone thought I was the best. Having people against you, or who don't quite believe in you, gives a lot of extra fuel to never settle.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

I'm an athlete. I'm a performer. Why the hell did I never think of combining the two?

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I just lost interest in performing.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

If you permit yourself, you can fill your day up pretty easily.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Setting a goal, accomplishing it, and feeling good about yourself can help build confidence and perseverance.

Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.