Quotes About Motivation

When you decide to go on a diet, it's never because you feel great and want to reward yourself by reducing your food intake and exercising more.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

Oamenii idolatrizeaz? talentul ?i râvnesc prea mult un anumit statut social. Mult prea mul?i nu vor s? fac? nimic dac? nu sunt recunoscu?i ca lideri; mult prea mul?i trebuie s? primeasc? laude, altfel nu manifest? nici un interes pentru munc?.

There's a basic mechanism for learning: [when] we find something interesting to us, we try to control it, we try to make it happen again, we try to change it, or we try to manipulate it. You see very early in babies—that they're trying to reproduce interesting things; take control of interesting things. In a lot of our schools, the teacher tells us what we have to know, and then we repeat it. That's not very interesting.

Rather than praising their personalities or intelligence ("You are so smart" or "artistic" or "athletic"), criticizing them ("You are so stupid" or "uncoordinated"), or attributing their accomplishments to luck, we can praise their efforts or strategies.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The successful leader may be the person who recognizes that we all have talents and who thus sees her or his main job as encouraging mindfulness in those being led.

when the accomplishments of others seem attainable, they will inspire us; when they seem unattainable, they may be undermining.1

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it

Technology is not the driver of change; what drives technology is human desire.

As long as you're alive, there's always plenty to do. You know John Berryman, the poet? He says people who are bore have no inner resources. Check it out: "Dream song #14.

There's a reason for killing everyone, if you know them well enough.

I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

Aronson's first law: People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.

Perhaps more people would be inclined to take action if, like the stereotypical terrorist, global warming had a moustache.

Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.

I just write whenever I can.

The pat on the back becomes more important than the music or the skating. One part of us becomes ever more committed to earning the pat on the back, while another subversive part—that we try to ignore—kicks and screams and resists the teacher's authority. This is the part that gives us all kinds of excuses for not practicing.

Erik called the land Greenland because the name would encourage people to go there.

But the fact that he never expressed it instilled in me a desire to show him that I'd made the right decision. It made me driven. I thought the more successful I got, the more it proved him wrong, whether he acknowledged it or not. Even today, I still sometimes think that I'm trying to show my father what I'm made of, and he's been dead since 1991.

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.