Quotes About Motivation

Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law.

Adams understood that the secret to self-government is that the people must themselves be self-governing, which is to say they must be motivated by something beyond the law. Each individual must govern himself, and for this morality was plainly necessary.

The insula not only evaluates and integrates the emotional or motivational importance of these stimuli, it also coordinates external sensory information and our internal motivational states. This consciousness of bodily states is a measure of our emotional awareness of self, the feeling that "I am.

Reading is good, action is better.

It is insufficient to exhort workers to try harder. Our current problems are caused by trying too hard—at the wrong things.

HYPERGROWTH FOR A COMPANY ALSO REQUIRES HYPERGROWTH OF THE PEOPLE INSIDE IT.

This is the pattern: poor quantitative results force us to declare failure and create the motivation, context, and space for more qualitative research. These investigations produce new ideas—new hypotheses—to be tested, leading to a possible pivot. Each pivot unlocks new opportunities for further experimentation, and the cycle repeats. Each time we repeat this simple rhythm: establish the baseline, tune the engine, and make a decision to pivot or persevere.

You're their CO. You have to inspire and command their respect. I'm their drill instructor. I get to be their worst nightmare.

One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

If you can look up, you can get up.

i use pain to push me to greatness

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen" - Michael Jordan

It's not easy, but it's simple.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful

Only when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, will you be successful.

I when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful

To the novice, it doubtless seems a conundrum that lies can have their basis in fact. Consider, however, the individual's need to have his or her desires met. This is fact. If lies are clever enough to fulfill this desire, they become a truth and, therefore, that much harder to dispel.

Chapter 4 concludes by pointing out that an additional incentive can drive individual user-innovators to innovate rather than buy: they may value the process of innovating because of the enjoyment or learning that it brings them. It might seem strange that user-innovators can enjoy product development enough to want to do it themselves—after all, manufacturers pay their product developers to do such work! On the other hand, it is

Love is one of the most powerful motivations there is. Love, hate, greed: the holy trinity of murder.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Rip off your shirt. Do it. No one will mind. You're a Greek god. All any other guy can do is compare himself to you, and weep at his own inadequacies. Yeah, strut your stuff. Strut it down the self-help aisle. Strut it through the cookbooks section. Show them a body for life.

if you're telling yourself that learning to do something differently is "fake" or "inauthentic," it may simply be a convenient way of rationalizing your lack of aspiration.