Climbing, as my grandmother said, it’s a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was going to get a real job. But climbing is a real job for me now, and I enjoy it. It’s a gift that I’m able to do it, share adventure and motivation with people.
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.
My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it’s possible that I’m a victim of my own job description. Others don’t inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.
Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Ladies are honest. They’re my motivation. They know what’s funny, and the dudes just follow.
That mentality that I have every year – that I have to prove myself to everyone that I’m a good player – that’s the thing that keeps me going. That’s my motivation.
When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.
Our team finds motivation in knowing that we’re transforming the ticketing industry, this notion that we’re bringing democratization to an industry and disrupting it using technology.
It’s a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.
A final is a final, and is motivation in itself.
If motivation is an issue, I would try to get out of your house to work out, not just go into the basement.
You don’t step back and have less motivation when you get older, the opposite is true. You become more focused, more professional in terms of things like looking after your body and more determined because you can see all the younger players coming up, looking for your place.
The quality of Indian players is very high. They need to show motivation to perform at the highest level.
I’ll be honest with you: before I heard Nicki rapping, I probably wouldn’t have thought to rap myself. Just to see a female doing it and being in there with the guys, it was motivation.
Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.
When government – in pursuit of good intentions – tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Let’s practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
It is always good when you play away because the fans support their team, and it gives you more motivation to play well.
When I look at China’s environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It’s lack of motivation.
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.
Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That’s where it’s coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing.
I’m away from my family so much doing my job. My family is my motivation for everything, so it’s only right that’s what you get to see on ‘Total Divas.’
Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I’m connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
Narcissism is the result of longstanding behavioral patterns that reflect fixed brain functioning. It requires a lot of motivation to change these patterns.
Veterans have the skills employers want – discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.
My brother Ryan was on the Disney XD show ‘Pair of Kings’ where he played Lanny, the evil cousin to twin kings, for three seasons. His motivation to be a better actor always pushes me to work harder and try to be more like him. When he gets a role, he will study that character until he becomes that person.
I don’t need much motivation.
I absolutely think I have the ability to be a world-class athlete and make a team. But even if I never make another world championship team or Olympic team, I think there are so many things I can say about the sport that can really excite me and bring me a lot of motivation in the day to day.
If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite ‘face time’ whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.
2017 was crazy when I made the ‘Freshman’ cover ’cause I looked up to it, and I really wanted to be in it. It was motivation for me after that: I kept on going, and I grinded.
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
The second draft is on yellow paper, that’s when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that’s where I cut, cut, cut.
I wanted to be part of the Houston Astros when they become a good team. That was my motivation… I never had in my mind the idea of playing with any other teams.
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I’m writing about.
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken.
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?
Whatever their motivations, lawmakers on both side of the aisle have certainly discovered that immigration is one of those issues that resonate strongly with the public.
One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I’m participating in these events. That’s enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments.
What drives you? What’s your motivation? That’s not emotion. That’s passion. It’s a different word.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action – to try to balance out those effects.
American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.
I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn’t feel they had it at Newcastle.
I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people’s character, who they are, and their motivation.
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.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
If more students use self-compassion to reframe their failures, they may discover more nourishing sources of motivation and healthier strategies to pursue their goals.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s what I love.
People want a cop-out, listen I’m a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Everyone wants more money, but if the motivation is money it’s not going to work, if that’s the only thing you want.
I always wanted to win, but I only used to get upset if I hadn’t done myself and the people around me proud – that was my motivation for always wanting to do better.
