Quotes About Motivation

When I was an actor, I liked throwing a challenge to other actors.

I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.

That first CS class I took, I felt like I was drowning. It's like being taught how to swim by being thrown off deck. The continual self-talk that I have had with myself while I've been here is, pull yourself together and get this done.

I was so young when I started that I didn't really understand all of it. We'd show up and have the slurs being thrown out there, but my parents always dealt with that. They just told me to go out there, do my best, and try to win. Go out there and race well and they'll shut right up.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

The rule of thumb in F1 is to beat your teammate.

You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.

We always try give the best of us in training to go in the cage and have a good performance, thus giving millions for the company. We also want to have part of these millions.

I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.

Passion is something that's hard to discover purely through introspection. You have to have experiences - you have to learn real-time and through experiences what makes you tick.

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?

I want to know about what makes an athlete tick.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

Writing is what I do. It's what makes me tick.

I always tell aspiring documentary filmmakers, 'You have to go into it because you love it; if you go into it for the money, you're an idiot.' The number one prerequisite is you have to be intensely curious. If you love learning and trying to make people figure out what makes people tick, it's the best job in the world.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

I got lucky when I was a teenager when we were booking bands at university. Those gigs were the greatest two hours in my life and there was nothing else I wanted to do. I knew my passion early, which is always the tough part of life, figuring out what makes you tick.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.