Quotes About Motivation

T'aint' no use to look for public sperit 'less you've got some yourself.

This was the house that Paula had taken me and two other graduate students to years earlier. She had told us to go out on the deck, look at the view of the Atlantic Ocean, and say to ourselves, This is what playwriting can buy. Now

People who are desperate are much more effective than people who have time to waste.

Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

She began to teach herself Esperanto, reciting phrases as she polished and swept.

I am a sort of villain, and know other villains best.

As Nietzsche said, when we have a why we can handle any how.

You'll methodically do everything you can to find me, then tick that off your list: a job well done. But will you ever even want to know why I went missing?

This feeling of not having control, even when one has a strong motivation or desire, is a strong contributor to depressed feelings.

As the non-AD/HD person continues on through life, the pieces continue to make sense. They don't get A's one day, and F's the next; they aren't called creative one day and lazy, unmotivated, and irresponsible the next. When people without these difficulties try to do something, their efforts usually pay off. In other words, there's a direct relationship between the effort and the results.

Many women report just being awake and alert all day as a huge improvement in this area. They feel a tremendous difference in their ability to counteract " the paralysis of will " that leaves many bright women sitting for hours, remote in hand, aimlessly changing channels with a million intentions and good thoughts trapped inside their head not being translated to action.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

The myth of altruism as a motivating factor in our behavior could arise and survive only in a society bundled in the sterile gauze of New England puritanism and Protestant morality and tied together with the ribbons of Madison Avenue public relations. It is one of the classic American fairy tales. From

One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence. Managers who want better performance must provide what their staff needs.

The absence of a grand schedule removed the constant fear of falling behind that many projects create and replaced it with small but frequent payoffs that we were making things better.