Quotes About Motivation

You have to suffer through this emptiness...and find what impels you to continue.

Sometimes hate and love serve exactly the same purpose.

Son tu conciencia y tu voluntad las que deben mantenerte vivo.

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.

You have to suffer through the emptiness and find what compels you to continue.

to sputter and giggle—Baby too. "I followed my piss!" I said between hiccupping laughter. "She followed her piss and her dreams came true!" Rachel screamed. "Follow your piss, Obi-Wan Kenobi," Barbara intoned.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I would never write at all.

Si je devais attendre d'avoir envie, je n'écrirais jamais.

For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?

surprise. "Come on

You have to prove to New York that you really want to live here.

Sometimes wanting isn't enough, Alek. You know that.

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

How was your day? If your answer was fine, then I don't think you were leading.

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging the status quo, the one who is daring to be great, who is truly present and not just punching a clock who must have confidence in her beliefs. Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for the paycheck? It's nice to get paid. It's essential to believe.

Marketing is our quest to make change on behalf of those we serve, and we do it by understanding the irrational forces that drive each of us.

Passion can overcome fear - the fear of losing, of failing, of being traditional.

You're Astonishing How dare you waste it.

So great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you'll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.

The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.