Quotes About Motivation

When you have love in your life and respect what you do, you get up and do things. Yes, definitely I do feel tired, but when I look around and see how privileged I am, I get going.

It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' My motivation for becoming a cartoonist was... to put it bluntly, the ¥100,000 prize money.

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

You've got to keep your eye on the prize, always want more and never settle for what you have.

In a way, I think Sae-byeok lived her life to the fullest, so her desperate need to win was different from the others, and she didn't necessarily have to earn the cash prize.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

Incentive prizes work.

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

You paid attention to every cornerback that was drafted before you. You always tried to outperform those guys. And for me, that's always been in the back of my mind - starting with not being invited to the combine, of wanting to make sure I had a good Pro Day and then getting drafted at the end of the sixth round.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Recast your current problems into proactive goals.

If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

The thing that makes me want to proceed and finish a song is when it really touches me and makes me feel something.

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.