Quotes About Motivation

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

I tell young people all the time because they think I'm an overnight success I've been doing this for over 20 years! And that means inspiring and motivating people.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Every time I go out to the mound, I think about where I come from and what I used to have.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Writing time has to be created.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.