Quotes About Motivation

After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.

I've got to win every race.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

The more criticism I get, the more it gives me a stronger urge to win. So I try harder.

You're always still trying to win a job. That's everyone's mindset: come in here and fight for your job, win a job.

Once you achieve a goal and you are on that high, you have to consciously pull yourself in to say, 'I need to have the same hunger and desire as when I had nothing.' That's the hardest thing to do in life. That is getting challenged every single day once you win titles.

It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.

When you have a coach that is a competitor, that wants to win more than anything else, it really carries over to the team.

I'm someone who believes in having motivation at all times, win or lose, individual awards.

I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of.

I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

You don't want to throw out a good idea and have nobody get excited about it. It takes the wind out of your sails.

I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

I do not need the transfer window or anything to improve myself.

I had to make 500 shots every day, and when my mom wasn't looking, I'd get up closer to the basket and do lay-ups and count them, and she'd be at the back window at the kitchen and knock. Then I'd have to go back and shoot from longer.

I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

The curse of being a songwriter is that's you're always at work. I could look out the window right now and see something that would make me want to write.

My original plan was to graduate high school and major in computer engineering at college. That went out the window, and I said, 'I have to do something with speaking.'

For me, addiction exposes all of the brain mechanism under the influence of a profoundly distorted primary motivation. It's such a window into how we function as human beings. And the patient doesn't know that's happening! Doesn't believe that's happening! That's the fascinating part.