Quotes About Motivation

You cannot aim yourself at anything if you are completely undisciplined and untutored. You will not know what to target, and you won't fly straight, even if you somehow get your aim right. And then you will conclude, "There is nothing to aim for." And then you will be lost.

Beware of intellectuals who make monotheism out of their theories of motivation.

Extracting useful information from experience is difficult. It requires the purest of motivations ("things should be made better, not worse") to perform it properly. It requires the willingness to confront error, forthrightly, and to determine at what point and why departure from the proper path occurred.

Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power,

Carl Jung hypothesized that the European mind found itself motivated to develop the cognitive technologies of science—to investigate the material world—after implicitly concluding that Christianity, with its laser-like emphasis on spiritual salvation, had failed to sufficiently address the problem of suffering in the here-and-now.

The ground of Being is subject and object simultaneously—motivation, emotion, and material thing all at once—before perception is clarified, before the world is articulated.

by the end of the day, I want things in my life to be a tiny bit better than they were this morning. Then you ask yourself, "What could I do, that I would do, that would accomplish that, and what small thing would I like as a reward?

You could ask yourself, "Is there anything at all that I might be willing to do about that pile of paper? Would I look, maybe, at one part of it? For twenty minutes?" Maybe the answer will be, "No!" But you might look for ten, or even for five (and if not that, for one). Start there. You will soon find that the entire pile shrinks in significance, merely because you have looked at part of it.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you'll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

The easiest way to make money is -create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.

contrary to previous assumptions, young men and women who possess the collective social graces of a herd of sex-crazed water buffalo and have an intelligence quotient in the range of Forrest Gump on three hits of acid, can be taught to sound like Wall Street wizards, as long as you write every last word down for them and then keep drilling it into their heads again and again—every day, twice a day—for a year straight.

The rest of them, however, are going to require a bit more persuading, in the form of running additional loops that address one of the following three areas: Increasing their level of certainty for one or more of the Three Tens Lowering their action threshold Increasing their pain threshold

Az egyetlen dolog, ami közted és a célod között áll nem más, mint az a szar sztori, amit magadnak adsz el?, hogy miért is nem lehet elérni mindazt, amit szeretnél.

people don't buy on logic; they buy on emotion, and then justify their decision with logic.

Practically speaking, the implications of this are staggering. After all, if you can lower a person's action threshold, then you can turn some of the toughest buyers into easy buyers—which is something that we do with great effect in the latter stages of the sale, and that sets up the possibility of being able to close anyone who is closeable.

In essence, pain creates urgency, which makes it the perfect vehicle for closing these tougher sales.

Finally the kitchen clock said 5:17. It was time to roll out. I shouted for my mom, woke Jeffrey up, ran upstairs, changed into my concert clothes, put on my shoes, and was standing by the door to the garage by 5:19—chanting "Let's go! Come on!" (Feel free to try that at home, by the way; moms love it!)

GET ON THE TREADMILL!

All right, Jeffy. Here are some big-boy pants. Put 'em on and crank out fifty miles for me. By the way, the iPod only has one playlist on it. Press play when you leave the starting line, okay?

Te das cuenta de que en estas semanas, desde la llegada de Paul, hemos compuesto más canciones y hemos ensamblado más temas que en todo este año, desde que empezamos a tocar?

Você acha mesmo, Norminha, que ele está com algum interesse? Está coisa nenhuma: quem quer comer pão adormecido, carne moída, sobejo de defunto? Ninguém há de querer…

Los grandes líderes creen en sí mismo por encima de cualquier receta, y desde esa fuerza interior transmiten y contagian.

In attempting to fan her flame I kindled myself