Quotes About Motivation

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

My energy level is very high ... how ambitious it all is depends on lots of different things. But pretty high energy level. I take on a lot of projects at the same time.

In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.

Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.

I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

What I try to do is create an energy, create an excitement, but at the same time keep everybody focused and realize it's still just a game, that we have to move the football.

I find science really sexy and, at the time that I was a school kid, it certainly wasn't.

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.