Motivation Quotes

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
M. Night Shyamalan

Love, Emotional, True

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Katarina Witt

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
Vince Poscente

Great, Yourself, Live

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.
Rick Scott

Job, America, Result

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
Barry Sanders

Time, Important, Why

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
Jillian Michaels

Change, Desire, Won

I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
Aimee Mann

Music, Greed, Thinking

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'
Brian Cox

Best, Children, Acting

If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.
Dorothy Denning

Question, Whether, Carry

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
Alexis Arguello

Boxing, Involved, Dedication

In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.
Andrzej Wajda

Great, Strong, Focus

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.
Sheryl Swoopes

Good, Girl, Play

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
Michael Moore

War, Government, Business

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.
Michael Moore

Politics, Mean, Filmmaker

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
Donald Norman

Emotional, Matter, Teachers

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.
Mark Cuban

Live, Big, Around

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Life, Age, Single

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.
Michael Strahan

Time, Good, Same

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.
Greg Ginn

Music, Important, Through

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.
Russell Banks

Simple, Book, Real

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.
Peter Welch

Politics, Bad, Someone

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.
Hermann Maier

Good, Past, Done

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
Gary Neville

Good, Football, Growth

It doesn't matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn't give me more or less motivation.
Monica Seles

Control, Give, Old

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
Anita Desai

Feeling, Book, Write

Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen every day and then to make it come alive with characters and with plot is incredibly exciting and at the same time terrifying and frustrating, and sometimes it comes easy and sometimes it comes really hard.
Ricky Schroder

Time, Focus, Passion

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer's main motivation is to become friends with the band. They're not really journalists; they're people who want to be involved in rock and roll.
Chuck Klosterman

Rock, Friends, Problem

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
James Sinegal

Today, Small, Pay

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.
Bryan Clay

Long, Win, Place

If faith is your motivation, share that.
Tim Kaine

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