Quotes About Motivation

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

My father graduated from high school and didn't go to college and still found his way.

One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

I am running to make history, to show that no human is limited. It's not about money, it's about showing a generation of people that there are no limits.

I'm very much a get up and go kind of girl. So just the one alarm for me, never hit snooze!

You don't get hits if you're depressed.

Well, I thought to myself if Rey Mysterio could do it, why can I do it? So I always took up his style, even as far as hitting the second rope.

You usually feel a little bit better when you are hitting a few more homers. That's just the way it goes.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

I think I have a lot more respect for someone who will be bold enough to say, 'I'm the leader of the hockey team, we're going to go there and give our best game and we're going to win the hockey game.'

The only person holding you back is you.

If you make no excuses, there's nothing holding you back.

Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.

I wanted to encourage people around me to evaluate their lives and see where they are holding themselves back. I wanted them to dream again.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

During the holidays, professional players would come and say hello to us in the academy and that really made you want to be a professional. When you saw what great conditions they lived in, it gave you even more desire.

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Holy crap, cross fit! It's terrible, but I'm doing that now. Anything so that I can look better.

When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.