Quotes About Motivation

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

I did find my direction at an early age.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.

I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

You get down on yourself. You get disappointed in yourself. I expect more out of myself. As far as losing confidence as far as what I can do, that won't ever happen.

I am never disappointed in life in not getting any awards: it is the movies which keep me going, not the awards.

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away.

I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

I don't have a lot of discipline.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

My dad was lackadaisical on the discipline front. I dropped out of everything at school.

It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.

I don't have good discipline at all.

I hope my story could become an inspiration of determination, discipline, faith and hardwork.

I wish I were more disciplined.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.