Quotes About Motivation

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

A person can succeed and fail at the same time. Maybe letting me down was your way of getting me to be me.

animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to.

Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never replace sheer dogged determination.

In Blanche's experience, the more a person believed love was a part of what they got from their employer, the more likely it was that the person was being asked to do things that only love could justify.

make money. To keep myself

What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped.

the Condor. "I don't interest myself in why. I think more often in terms of when. Sometimes where. Always how much.

provocation.

interesting how much insight you could have into your own pathologies, and how little impact the insight would have on your underlying needs. Or on your behavior.

Naomi, you think this is all an accident? It's a science. There are people out there who are experts at getting others to do tomorrow what was unthinkable today.

If there was one thing Snake knew about people, it was that once they got attached to a theory, it was hard to get them detached. They'd screen out unhelpful facts, invent favorable ones, and ignore contradictions in their own claims. Look at those Sandy Hook truthers, babbling about false flags and crisis actors and all the rest. When people were motivated enough to believe something, they were going to believe it no matter what.

She wondered what it was about men that wed them more to a way of doing things than to achieving their ostensible goals.

It's a science. There are people out there who are experts at getting others to do tomorrow what was unthinkable today.

You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.

Students work to get good grades even when they have no interest in their studies.

to be satisfied with our work, we typically need a belief in the purpose of what we do. Amy

This motivation was at work in both Christian and non-Christian circles. We know this because ancient authors actually tell us so. For example, a commentator on the writings of Aristotle, a pagan scholar named David, indicated: "If someone is uninfluential and unknown, yet wants his writing to be read, he writes in the name of someone who came before him and was influential, so that through his influence he can get his work accepted.

Intentions are not the same as motivations. The "intention" is what you want to accomplish; the "motivation" is the reason you want to accomplish it.

When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.