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Motivational Quotes
"I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation."
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"If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday."
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"I don't think any collector knows his true motivation."
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"I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum."
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"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."
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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
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"Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other."
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"We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game."
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
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"While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm."
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"Get out of your own way. stop the paralysis by analysis. dream your dream. then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!"
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"Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean."
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
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"But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa."
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"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
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"Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation."
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"There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying."
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"You always succeed in producing a result."
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"I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself, you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons."
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"Don't wait for a future moment, the time is NOW! The life of your dreams awaits... UN-ASS the couch and go get it!"
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"I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions."
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"You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time."
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"I use pain to push me to greatness."
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"And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents."
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals."
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"Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely."
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"Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values."
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"All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one."
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"The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win."
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"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
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"I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility."
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"If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure."
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"Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it."
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"A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line."
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"You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today's the day. Say it: this is going to be my day."
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"You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!"
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"It's not other people's job to make you happy and fulfilled; it's yours. It's important to always be nice and respectful of others, but it's even more important to be nice and respectful toward yourself. You have to live with yourself the rest of your life, so stop being so hard on yourself. Focus on your strengths and lead by example. You are special and unique in every way. And if other people don't appreciate you for who you are, it's their loss. Remember, there are some people who don't even like chocolate cake!"
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"No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals."
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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
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"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
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"Never lose hope. Never lose faith."
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"My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love."
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"Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation."
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"If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses."
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"Don't throw away another day! No more procrastinating! Only YOU can make it happen. So, UN-ASS the couch and make it happen!"
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"The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes."
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