Quotes About Motivation

My father, my first coach, would never let me punk out if I was capable of helping the team.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.

What I do is that I really, really try hard to make sure the things that I do comes from a pure place in my heart and my intent is a pure one.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

Most of us are not pure self-starters; most people need role models, they need coaches, they need exemplars, they maybe need some discipline or some rewards. We need to be motivated.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

When I began my career, I worked purely for the money.

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.

My decision to participate in 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' was purely for my daughter. I wanted her to be proud of me, and I know I have achieved it.

I listen to 'Purple Haze' a lot. If I'm in the gym, I listen to that album the whole way through sometimes.

'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

The purpose creates the machine.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.