Quotes About Motivation

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

I just want to try and be in projects that are exciting to me.

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.

Since 'School of Rock' opened, for the first time in my career, ever, really, I've had a lot of projects offered to me. It's extraordinary. Normally, I've initiated them all myself.

I've been lucky enough in my career to work with a few people who are really prolific.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

I promise I will get up every day, determined to make a difference... I am ready to serve.

I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work.

I'd promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, 'I can't let her down.'

I look at every promo I do as a command performance to do better than I did the previous week if not deliver the best promo of my life.

I just want to make my players give their most. I give them room to express themselves because that's how they develop. I promote their talent and let them make their own decisions.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.'

Didn't get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love.

I talk to my guys and I tell them, 'You have to fight in a way that you don't give the promoter a choice but to bring you back.'

If the fighter doesn't want to fight, you're not gonna want him to fight. If the fighter doesn't want to fight, the promoter doesn't make him fight. And if he wants to retire, then it's time to walk away.