Quotes About Motivation

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

Left to my own devices I'd get up at midday every day of my life.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

If you think your life sucks, it probably does. Do something about it.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

There was one thing the Star Trek movies did well, and that's the action sequences always had something going on and were character motivated.

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

Man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress.

They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.

Work is not just about economic reward. It is also about purpose and self-respect.

This is because the structure, novelty, and motivation associated with

Russell Barkley similarly describes the primary problem in ADD as a deficit in the motivation system, which makes it impossible to stay on task for any length of time unless there is constant feedback, constant reward.

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

scientists, I believe, are divided into two categories: those who do science in order to be a success in life, and those who become a success in life in order to do science. It is the latter who stay active in research for a lifetime.

He] went on to tell her that certain work songs made the work a little easier, but that there were others, depending upon the time of day, that dragged a body down, so 'you just gotta be careful with your songs and your hummin' and whatnot.