Quotes About Motivation

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I'm not confident, but I've really found my personal growth through work.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

If I'm not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it's like, 'What am I doing this for?'

Whether it's your personal life, your work life, your school life, your confidence, everything will fit once you believe in yourself.

I gather from motivation around me - from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd take it personally.

I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.

I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.

I have been in this league for a long time, and if you are not motivated on a daily basis, you won't be in this league long - that's players, coaches, that's personnel, that's everybody.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you're really managing people and getting the best out of them.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.