Quotes About Motivation

I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.

Actually I don't mind the gym when I get there, but I hate the psychological battle I have to go through to get there.

In the past, we showed that we could play football, but Vladimir Petkovic has worked with us on the psychological side of things in particular. I think that's where we've made the most progress. He's brought us closer together as a team.

That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.

I became a cognitive psychologist because I met a bunch of teachers I really liked.

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

I have a coach, a physio and a psychologist.

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

What actors are involved in is a similar sort of psychological forensic examination of the characters they're playing. You try to have an idea about why somebody does what they do and you try not to be in judgmental about it. That is what psychologists and psychotherapists aim to do with their patients.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don't have it inside then you can't provide it.

Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Noir focuses on the criminal mind, not a whodunit: more why they did it and will they get away with it. The abnormal psychology is what fascinates me rather than the puzzle-solving aspect.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.