Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I’m a very motivated person. I don’t need extra motivation.
That’s the easy part, to continue to do what you love, to focus, to train, there’s no extra motivation that needs to be added to that.
Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That’s really what you want to emulate.
The moment you design the post of a HR manager in the police, your whole outlook towards your team changes. You designate an official to look after their health, their professional needs, their preparedness and motivation, which in most cases becomes quintessential.
The motivations for using drugs, often it’s pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don’t want to just be known for being involved in ‘Playboy,’ or having been Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend – I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That’s my main motivation.
NASA’s been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it’s sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.
I don’t want actors reasoning with me about ‘motivation’ and all that bull.
I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
To understand the motivations behind Chinese government policy decisions, look no further than their impact on State-Owned Enterprises.
I think motivation and drive, coupled with raw talent, help make founders successful.
The biggest effect of travel on me is that it acts as a source of motivation. At times it makes me feel small, too. I want to visit more places.
I think a lot of times it’s not money that’s the primary motivation factor; it’s the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.
I like people rooting against me. It gives me extra motivation, but when you’re fighting for undisputed status, you don’t need much more motivation than that.
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it’s not the same taste.
When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.
I love seeing other people swim quickly, it gives you a bit more motivation to keep pushing and get the best out of yourself.
Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
A good lie detector doesn’t jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn’t to point the finger and say, ‘You’re lying’ – your goal is to get to the truth.
There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.
I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I’ll whip out paints. It’s tough to find the motivation, but it’s also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing.
One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they’re praised so often that it’s what they want to live as – brilliant – not as someone who ever makes mistakes. It really stunts their motivation.
Usually, when you win the championship, you party all summer and don’t work out. But when I won, I mean, I had my good times, but I used it as motivation to do it again. When you realize you can accomplish something so great, you want to do it again.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That’s always been my motivation – to take care of the people who rely on me.
I think I do get excited by challenges and I do find a sense of motivation and purpose within those.
It’s not like it’s a competition; it’s almost like mirror motivation. My twin brother’s always pushing me to get better and better, and I’m doing the same thing for him.
When you’re CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
Any good film you see gives you enough motivation and adrenaline rush to produce good content, while a bad film can get you so angry that you produce even better content.
I don’t believe we’re only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.
The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.
I know I’m never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn’t go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.
The most fascinating powers don’t mean a thing if the guy’s poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won’t hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it’s his motivation that makes him the character he is.
Ninety percent has to come from yourself, your inner-energy, motivation to get the most out of yourself.
There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week. People want to look fat. Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It’s all about motivation.
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I’ve asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That’s really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn’t correlate, it decreases in your motivation.
It’s not like I want to be famous but it’s a great motivation for me. If you have good attention, you feel more excited.
I try to transmit calmness and motivation to my team-mates.
I definitely have a preference for writing anti-heroes and bad guys, especially when they have motivations that the average ‘good’ person can understand and get behind.
The simplest and clearest motivation for taking animal welfare seriously is the recognition that pain is in and of itself a bad thing, and that to inflict significant amounts of it unnecessarily is wrong.
Don’t do a startup unless you’re ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
I think you are wrong if you play a Champions League game, and you don’t find motivation.
My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree.
My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.
I love to run. When the weather’s bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.
As I learned, like, each year, more and more, I face it as far as there’s always something. There’s always talk about something. Off the field or if it’s on the field, it’s age, it’s my salary. It’s always something, so I learned to kind of use that nowadays, it’s like motivation.
Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn’t the key.
You can’t be funny for funny’s sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
I will say, for Wu-Tang, money wasn’t the motivation, it was artistic domination.
Mostly we’re motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there’s a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
