Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that’s not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They’re motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
I do remember feeling, ‘I don’t ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.’ And that motivated me to go to law school – that, and my parents saying, ‘Go to law school before you do anything.’
Working out makes me feel good. When I don’t work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I’m at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.
I’ve played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It’s difficult to keep motivated, but it’s all about growth. The love of music kept me going.
Waking up every day and planning games makes me motivated.
You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You’ve got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don’t have to take after them.
Despite repeated calls for reform from nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, the court has become an ineffective, unaccountable and politically motivated bureaucracy. There are serious concerns about corruption and misconduct at the highest levels of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor.
Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.
I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
For as long as I am still motivated, I will keep putting my boots on and not pinning them up.
I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I’m just a very determined, motivated type of person.
I’m not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
Right after ‘Backspacer,’ my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music… So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life’s short.
I think it’s really important to keep on staying motivated.
I’m motivated by the positive ways in which Bitcoin use being widespread will make the world a better place.
Mr. Freeze is motivated by different things. He doesn’t really have that much of an axe to grind with Batman. Batman is an irritation and an impediment to him, not an enemy that he hates. He doesn’t have the hatred that the Joker has for Batman.
Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.
You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.
I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I’m motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don’t have another country.
I think that when we were younger, the fact of knowing our uncle Derrike won the Daytona 500. We were racing go-karts then, and I think that really kind of motivated us.
It’s been a surreal journey for me since ‘Masaan.’ The way the industry has accepted me and motivated me has been amazing.
When we play a team I know we’re going to blow out or anything like that, I’m not as motivated.
Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren’t true.
Far too many bright, motivated kids are being badly served by their educational experiences – ones at elite, wealthy schools as well as underfunded ones.
If Deja wasn’t my sister, I feel like I would still be motivated but not in the way that I am today. Having a disabled sister, that’s a lot more motivation, especially when she tells you growing up that she wishes she can be out there with the kids playing and she wishes she can be out there running around.
If you look at ‘West Side Story,’ a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla’s going to do, and they’re purely motivated.
Within the girl’s game, you have to be motivated to be part of this sport.
It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn’t play a part. Of course it does – that’s human nature.
At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.
The hardest fights I’ve had have been in the gym, not in the cage. It keeps you motivated. One day, you’ll go in and feel like you can beat anybody in the world. The next day, you kind of get humbled. That’s what keeps us coming back to train more and more.
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
Some people criticize the faithful for getting involved in politics, but it’s important to remember that down through the centuries, people motivated by their faith have done many important things. Martin Luther King Jr. – motivated by his faith – brought about an end to segregation in our country.
I still love the preparation of the game. I think that actually helps you heal faster, still being around it; it keeps you motivated. It keeps you engaged, and I want to be around my teammates.
The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.
The Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.
I’m confident, motivated.
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
I’m not motivated to be famous. I’m motivated to be successful. To reach people, I’ve got to get on TV, I’ve got to get in with the government, I’ve got to get on TV abroad.
I am motivated and relish the pressure.
What will make you energized and motivated, to be awesome today? Is it an awesome shower in the morning, is it a great breakfast, is it a beautiful view? Or is it all of those things together.
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people’s fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
If I have the chance to be an important part for my colleagues or someone they can look at and say, ‘He’s doing good; he’s motivated,’ this is an objective I want to reach.
The worst career advice is to just do something because it’s paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I’ve had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.
It’s easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America’s cities.
I like to think I know a lot, but I don’t. I’m motivated to learn more.
In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I’m motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven’t done anything bad.
I actually find fondness and appreciation for the Bray Wyatt. I see that he is driven by a higher power, much like I am driven and motivated and inspired and given strength by the Seven Deities.
How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told – as a children been told that they’re no good, that they’re never going to be anything else.
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
Certainly, grades only matter so much when you’re in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that’s a good thing.
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn’t an especially motivated student, either.
I don’t need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.
