Quotes About Motivation

We all wish that we could be more productive.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

We can do things and not be the best. Maybe you were late to work but by god at least you got to work. You may not have the most productive day but well bloody done for getting out from under the duvet.

I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.

With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.

I mean, I've been kind of bad at self-care. I struggle with tying my self-care to being more effective and more productive. Especially as an entrepreneur, it's hard not to.

I'm by far my most creative and my most productive early in the day.

If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.

Wherever I am I want to be productive.

The important thing to me is being productive. It helps me feel good as a person, helps me feel strong, helps me feel like I'm doing something throughout my days.

Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.

Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

One must keep challenging oneself to do well in any profession.

For me, acting is something I am passionate about. I am someone who wants to be known for who I am. If I wanted to just make money, I would've chosen some other profession.