Quotes About Motivation

Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

There are different reasons to make movies.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

For me, family has always been one of the key reasons to make music.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.