Quotes About Motivation

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We're all selfish bastards at heart, aren't we?

Getting her team onside was a piece of piss. Who needed management training?

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My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

I was really unfit for a while, so once I began running, I developed an obsession with it and started feeling really good. Then I thought I'd run a marathon after watching the London Marathon on TV. So I did it and had a good time. And then I ended up doing a bunch, and I was like, 'What if I could go further?' So I found out about Ultra Marathons.

No matter what, if I got in for one minute or five minutes - especially that first year, minutes were really crucial for me - I played hard.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'

There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'

I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.

Then when I was writing alone, I'd just be in my bedroom in London and I had a little studio setup. I was like, You know what, if no one's gonna produce my music, I'm gonna have to learn how to do it myself.

My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, 'What if you stop growing?'

It really is never too late, it really is never too early to figure out your goals and dreams and what you love.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

That's the easy part, to continue to do what you love, to focus, to train, there's no extra motivation that needs to be added to that.

When you do what you love, you do not feel the pressure.

If you do what you love, you're going work your butt off every day.

Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.