I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.
One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.
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.
Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.
Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
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.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
No one does anything from a single motive.
These are the times that try men's souls.
What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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.
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.
I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
Where's the motivation to drive stocks higher?. I thought that we could have done better, but there was no real motivation to move things higher or lower.