Quotes About Motivation

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.

Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.

I think my story captured a wonderful feeling inside all of us. It's a dream that we can all do it. It's all possible.

The bottom line is, don't be a lifer. Get in, get a business, get five years of what you can, and get out. What happens is they start listening to the promoters, 'You'll get the next main event.' And then, all of a sudden, you become a lifer. That's the kiss of death there. Get in shape, go in, get the money, get out, and have a wonderful life.

If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.

To influence people to do something they love, it's a wonderful thing.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

It's a wonderful thing to realize that you have infinite capacities and that you can really channel your own power and put that to good use.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'

If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

I started wondering why it is that people line up behind charismatic leaders. It's easy to understand the emergence of a figure who's narcissistic and compelling. But why people follow this person mindlessly - that was the hard question to me.

I used to drive around looking at the big houses, wondering how they got there. I used to love biographies about successful business people, wondering how they got there. You start to realize that if they can do it, I can do it.

When I considered PSG before I signed for Juventus one thing that put me off was wondering what the point is of coming second every year.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Women are doing wonders as entrepreneurs.

'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

I found the success of 'In a Dark, Dark Wood' really distracting when I was writing 'The Woman in Cabin 10,' but in a way, the fact that 'Cabin 10' was doing well felt quite freeing while I was writing 'The Lying Game.'

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

When things get complicated, you have to bring out your character and put more wood on the fire.

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.