If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that’s the truth. And my goal is the same – it’s to always be happy playing, it’s to enjoy the game and improve always.
I want to do a project with the right intentions – not money or popularity or to be busy. I’m not even concerned about being ‘out of sight, out of mind’ because if that’s the motivation, then I won’t give my 110% to the work.
I’m just trying to use my happiness and motivation to rub off on other people around me.
For me, motivation is like obligation.
I don’t think you need motivation to win a league or a trophy. It’s every footballer’s dream. It’s why you play football. You enjoy and love the game, but you play to win and be the best.
Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.
By turning negatives into positives, losing into a journey to winning, I have been able to overcome the odds that were against me into motivation for my success.
Laughs, just laughs. It’s the only motivation of a comic.
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.
Just in myself the motivation side of it, maybe just being a little bit more aggressive to get something out of myself a little bit more. I definitely play better with it.
If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.
You have to understand who your customer is and her motivations and marry it to what’s happening in the outside world.
There’s a love of San Diego that I will always cherish, but this is the East. It’s football – these people love rooting for the Ravens, and this gives you extra motivation in life to go get what you want.
The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.
I’m not saying I like to be kicked, but it’s good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You’re able to get inside their heads in a different way. You can understand their motivations more.
Other people’s success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
I think I am someone who is happy playing football. It is just that. Whenever I go onto the pitch, I always try and be happy. That is the big motivation that I have always had. Nothing else.
We always talk about how important representation is. It’s so important to see someone that looks like you – whether you’re African American, Asian, Indian or whatever your background is – doing incredible things. It’s just motivation to go out there and do incredible things yourself.
I initially decided to speak about my anorexia and bulimia, partly out of a selfish motivation. I felt I had been scrutinised for my weight and thought, ‘At least judge and criticise me on the facts.’ There was a freedom with that. Now it’s out there, and I just get on with life. I’m at peace with things.
After the failure in ’92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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.
Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It’s not anger, it’s motivation.
My motivation for tennis has been increasing every year.
Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.
I get all of my motivation from my customers.
I’m a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.
I think when music, specifically heavy music, the motivation for it is other than truly feeling it, that’s when it becomes really difficult for me.
England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.
I know people know how good I am playing basketball… All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.
We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution.
My motivation is paying the mortgage. No joke. Honestly. I still suffer with nerves and think, ‘Why am I putting myself through this torture?’ It’s not actually the love of winning – it’s that building of a partnership with a horse. Just riding horses every day keeps me going. And that threat of losing the mortgage.
I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew… Looking back now, I’m glad I didn’t hit puberty until later.
I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.
I love putting a chip on my shoulder. It’s just more motivation to go out there and show my ability.
Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist’s good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.
I’m just trying to pass Tim Duncan in championships if I can one day. That’s my motivation; that’s what I strive for. Tim is one of the greatest players who has ever played, so if I could get close or reach that plateau and have my name on that list.
Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They’re watching. They’re mimicking. They’re an extension of you. So you have to win.
I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn’t distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it’s a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
I’d rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I’d like to be seen in New York, that’s not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
You always have to be conscious of how your words can provide motivation to the opposition.
No matter what happens to our game, money won’t be a motivation for me.
If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can’t play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.
Different kinds of people have different motivations for filling out surveys. Sometimes you would have a group of people who just would fill it out because they’re bored, and they don’t have anything to do. Or they would just genuinely want to know what is their personality.
For the great speakers, it’s all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they’re giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
We know that recognition and intrinsic motivation are important to our success, but the key is finding ways to effectively operationalize them.
My motivation to compete was always about improving one year to the next. At 34, I realised I’d never run any quicker, so why hang on? But I love running and still run along woodland trails and beaches every few days.
My motivation is to be the best I can be.
