Quotes About Motivation

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.

I strip the bed as fast as I can so I won't be tempted to get back in. Do you know what Mother calls this sort of thing? The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do-- you can either type or kill yourself.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk.

The challenge and the dignity make it interesting enough. Besides

One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do—you can either type or kill yourself.

If you find that you start a number of stories or pieces that you don't ever bother finishing, that you lose interest or faith in them along the way, it may be that there is nothing at their center about which you care passionately.

On writer's block: The word block suggests that you are constipated or stuck, when the truth is that you're empty.

They are angry people. This is why they write.

One of the things that happens when you give yourself permission to sart writing is that you start thinking like a writer

The only thing to do when the sense of dread and low self-esteem tells you that you are not up to this is to wear it down by getting a little work done every day. You really can do it, really can find these people inside you and learn to hear what they have to say.

One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, 'It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do-- you can either type or kill yourself.

And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.

To be without purpose is the same as being dead, only less peaceful.

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty