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As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

The principal motivation was to find a way to deal with all the beetle-kill trees and reduce fuel-loading in the forest. Our study showed it looked feasible from a technical as well as an economic viewpoint.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

Enabling is the enemy of motivation.

If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it then I'm guessing that some other people might want to see it as well. I never try to think about what people will love or will like, because when you start to think for other people that's where you lose track of the real motivation.

Scottsdale citizens were very concerned about the number of collisions and speeding on the Loop 101; they asked that something be done about it. The motivation of the program is safety, to allow people to get home safely.

Seventy percent of high school students already take the college entrance exam, so the component of that plus students doing better on motivation would be a positive thing.

Since Mike came on board we have seen measurable results in the growth of our resort rental program, Suite Getaways (SM) . As we continue to expand our resort management relationships Mike is key to ensuring smooth transitions and to imparting the finest of hospitality services to resort guests. His diverse experience in the hospitality industry makes it possible for him to get to the bottom of challenges and opportunities with little difficulty. His eye for detail, strong operations knowledge and motivation allows him to focus on result-oriented leadership.

She put me under her wing when I came onto the team. I met her when I was nine years old, and she gave me the motivation and kind of the goal to be in the Olympics and win an Olympic gold medal.

She is a perfectionist. Her motivation is her own.

Mitch treats us like we're kids and he's our daddy. He takes care of every player. That's motivation -- here I go with that word again -- to play hard.

Mr. Fortier was the best, the most damning, the most direct and the only witness who could provide direct evidence of the planning, preparation, motivation and execution of the bomb plot of (Timothy) McVeigh and (Terry) Nichols.

Motivation through fear was Woody's biggest coaching tool,

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s.

Motivation for creating this division is to more fully account for the full range of behavioral responses of major tax changes.

My initial motivation was to come back and race with Marco. But now I'm very excited about the chance to win this race. I'm excited to do it.

One motivation that could be at the back of European minds is the danger of the American banks coming in.

Of course, gold can go higher on investment and speculative demand, but there seems no clear motivation for new money to be committed to gold at this time.

More student-athletes would be able to travel and to dress on the field, and it would give institutions the ability to bring more people along for the playoffs and for the title game. Making a profit is an individual institutional decision, but our motivation is to help them not spend as much money and be able to celebrate the event. This will hopefully allow people to do that.

Now you've got someone admitting exactly what the motivation was and explaining all the avenues they used.

Obviously our main motivation is to get back to the Super Bowl and win it this time,

People will only reach as high as the standard is set. It is the leader's duty to set the standard high, but then to come behind them to help them reach that standard. This is true motivation and true leadership!

Plus, it always bugged me to see how my dad became unable to use the phone when the computers started taking over. So part of my motivation for this fight is in his name.

Personally, the experience is amazing. To see where these kids live and grow up, it's an experience all in itself to just talk to them individually and feel that you have made some kind of positive impact on their life. Most of them really are good kids stuck in a bad situation and we are there to try to bring out that motivation and determination in them to succeed in life. And the kids have started to warm up to us. They are starting to bring their homework more often and have gained more interest in what we have to share with them.

Personally, I think it should be easy. This was really embarrassing. We had a great crowd and we lost by 20-something. This should give us more motivation to come out here (today) and play hard against Boston College.

My ultimate goal is to box in the 2008 Olympics. I have the drive and motivation to make the Olympic team.

I was so out of shape from pregnancy, but I knew I needed the motivation of working out with other moms.

I was so happy to hear from him, ... In the situation that I was in, any bit of good news brightens your day. I guess it was just fate that he called when he did. It made my day and gave me even more motivation to get myself right.

If we have an opportunity to keep it from spreading, shouldn't we do so? A big part of our motivation was to keep it off the Western Slope. It was real nice idea that was probably 10, 15 or 20 years too late.

I have been touching 140 km per hour regularly in the domestic circuit but I know I lack in discipline. I tend to get wayward and I am working hard on it. What is encouraging and a source of constant motivation for me is the fact that the current team management believes in giving chances to youngsters.

I'd like to believe that we're learning to win close games. We've taken some time to learn some lessons, and I'm not sure we're going to learn all of our lessons this year. If we're behind going into the third period, we need to have the motivation to come back and win those games.

I don't know what it is. Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, it's kind of been like that. I guess it's become a little more of a motivation for me to shake off whatever nicks I might pick up, because I'm really just trying to be there for the guys.

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

I bottomed out at state last year and that was a lot of my motivation today. That, and coach. He's done a lot for this program and we wanted to do well for him.

I am really pleased in how we responded after game two competitively. That was a huge motivation for FSU, being at home and coming back like that. I am glad we stayed very competitive and we figured out a way to get the job done.

I am quite happy to be back here after my victory two years ago and I am hoping to go to Shanghai, ... It is extra motivation to be top seed. But there are still other players who can win here and who I still need to beat.

I am sure Martell has probably thought that going down to the D-League, people are going to start questioning whether he should have gone out. I'm sure that's in his mind. But I'm also pretty sure that in his mind, it's given him more motivation to make it happen.

I and thousands like me have forsaken everything for what we believe in. Our driving motivation does not come from tangible commodities that this world has to offer. Our religion is Islam.

But the scale of the fall remains beyond that which would be expected, given the difference in supply lines, and regardless of its motivation it still raises the question as to how inventories for the driving season can be built in a timely fashion.

Because they have grown through acquisition, many insurance companies run their various lines as independent businesses. Because there were systems in place that worked when businesses were acquired, there really was no immediate motivation to change.

I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.

I have always wanted to be a cartoonist, and I feel very blessed to have been able to do what I love for almost 50 years, ... That all of you have embraced Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy and Linus and all the other Peanuts characters has been a constant motivation for me.

I felt good about that one once it left my hand. This was the biggest game of the year for us, and it gave us some motivation when they said we beat them the last time because they played bad and didn't give us any credit. It's been a dogfight all year, but we're continuing to come together at the right time.

I feel like he's a threat to break out at any time, even if he's coming off a so-called slump. You've just got to be ready for him to have a big-time game. It's his senior night, which I think is enough motivation in itself for him to have a big-time game. We've just got to be there to try to slow him down.

Given our lack of success we've had against Washington State ... there's a lot of focus and motivation to continue the things that we are doing. This is a big road test, our first road test of the season.

For me, that's why I'm so attracted to music. That's kind of my whole motivation to do what we're doing, so I can get up there and play every night.

Frankly, we don't understand what the true motivation was,

I entered the contest to tell people about how I got inspired, and how I try to inspire other people. It's about finding strength and motivation to go for your goals and dreams.

I enjoy him being harsh on us. It's motivation to go out there and play better. I enjoy him challenging us.

I don't think racial motivation has anything to do with it.

For the team it has been a fantastic season. It was not crucial but quite important for the team for the motivation for next year.

Giving cash rewards is one of the least-effective means of motivating employees. While money may induce short-term involvement, it does not create motivation for the long term. Merchandise has a residual value over cash because the objects serve as reminders.

If that's how they want to play, they can look at the time sheet after the second run. I'm getting tired of it. That was a little bit of motivation on the second run.

He will give us the attitude I am looking for and will add his experience and motivation to the squad.

He has a lack of drive and motivation when asked to do operational work, ... He's just a lovely pet.

He gave me some tips about how to stride and control my breathing. I got my motivation while I was lying there in bed that I wanted to make some changes in my life. You set goals and you have to try to live up to them.

There is a good motivation for the team to have someone who is still young and motivated to win and to transform everything in a good way. I am not going there to actually say 'change this, change that' I am going there to learn how the team works and I am bringing the 13 years of experience to make that a winning team.

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.

He's a 21-year-old kid who's loaded with motivation and enthusiasm and we wanted to give him the opportunity to excel in this industry.

Her motivation and drive to compete and win are pretty outstanding.

He's got really good leadership at home. His mom and dad are good people and they push him hard in academics. But sports have kind have been his motivation to give him a kind of inner strength rather than mom, dad, teacher and coach McLaughlin getting on him. You can see that he wants to do it for himself.

His motivation was to unlock that equity in GMAC. Rumor has it that it's not going well.

His motivation for making such comments is unclear to us. But adopting a logical stance towards Iran's nuclear activity, better serves the interest of the region.

He's going to have a tough job given that Robbie has driven so well for us throughout the season but Darren's experience and speed in a wide range of cars together with his motivation augers well for China.

Hopefully, the team used it as motivation throughout the summer,

We lost that game in the past, so basically, most of this team, with the exception of one starter, was back and on a mission to get back to Stony Brook not only to be there but to be in it. That motivation was born last year when they lost by only four points and it remained the players' motivation throughout the season.

He knows Hillel as well as anyone coming in, certainly better than the other candidates. He's familiar with the system, he's committed, intelligent, he's attractive and he's got great motivation to do the job.

has done a heck of a job to keep motivation to go out there and try to win.

Harford County is growing so much that there was a need for a conference center type hotel. And that was the real motivation behind it.

Kevin convinced us that his motivation was one of pure altruism and that it was important to him to help a stranger in this way.

I would think that Texas has a tremendous amount of motivation building into this game, just as we do, and they don't need any more than that. If that helps them, then it's OK. I can't do anything about it.

Just look at the tape from last week. That's all the motivation we need.

Jonesboro and Craighead County prevented some potential problems by having officers at the sites immediately, ... We're going to have a hardcore group left, who lived in shelters in New Orleans, that will have little motivation to return home. It's going to be a challenge for whomever tries to place these people somewhere in the long run.

I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.

I think it's a huge advantage because our comfort level is good at home. We play in front of our own crowd so the excitement level is there. The kids' families are all here so it's just a comfortable place, they don't need any added any motivation when their at home.

I think it may be tougher this year because there are more nerves from the expectation of winning it. I have more motivation to train harder. I never take anything for granted. I like Vitaly. He's a good kid. I'm glad to see him make it here. He'll be a good opponent to have in the finals.

I think it's motivation to show these younger guys that hard work pays off, to show that what we've been doing in these past few years has worked. And if it's worked in the past, it can work in the present.

I think it's motivation that we made it this far. Everybody always doubted us. We've never gotten the respect the Indiana Fever deserve for all the hard work we've put into it.

I think it's more motivation that they came out and dominated us. We just kind of laid down and died.

I think it's going to be a classic. It should be a great game. Our motivation is to prolong our season.

It could be motivation for them, everyone is counting them out, nobody thinks they can do it. They're trying to prove people wrong. But that's not our problem. We're trying to get ourselves together. They'll take care of their house, we'll try to take care of ours.

It is a good opportunity to take a veteran team down there. It'll be great motivation for our players all summer.

I think that gave us confidence that we could win titles despite our age. It was motivation for us to get it done in soccer, not just softball. It kicked off a little friendly competition between our sports. It was motivation to try and get in there and be able to do that for our sport as well. Jessica was a big part of that.

I was disappointed with how I played last year. That's definitely motivation for me this time. I don't want to let my teammates down.

I think we got our adrenaline going a little too much. Having a chance to clinch the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and get to 20 wins I thought was motivation enough.

It gave us some motivation going into the sectional.

It gives me motivation because I know where I need to be. I'm hungry.

It gives me a lot of motivation to achieve the double for the last time. It not only brings glory to my country but to myself. It's a wonderful opportunity.

It gives younger guys hope for the future. Gives them motivation and pride. We're trying to set up a winning tradition and the best way to do that is to win the last game.

I think this will be motivation for us.

I think we all felt a little bitter. When that announcement was made, every one of us had a pit in our stomach. Hopefully, the team used that as motivation throughout the summer. I know the coaching staff used it as motivation during the summer - that we didn't want to be back in the (WNIT).

It is not a deterrent. It is in a very real sense a revenge by society. ... Revenge is not a proper motivation by the government. Justice should be our aim. I think these recommendations ... will improve our system of justice,

I think that's been somewhat of a motivation factor for us coming into this year, to not get snubbed. That's why I think we took it one game at a time.

I think that it would remove any motivation to minimize noise impacts over our citizens. It would mean a lessening of people's quality of lives in Adams county and our cities.

It is motivation for us, but that's just a glimpse of our season. Every game we've been the underdogs, and people have not picked us to do well and have thought that we've been lucky the whole year and that we would never make it to the Super Bowl. Here we are, and we're here to show the world that we're a good team and that we're the best.

I was wreck at the thought of raising money. I was shocked by the support I received from so many of my friends. It had been a real positive experience. It gave me the extra motivation to prepare for the race. There is a little extra pressure to do well now, because I will be letting people down if I don't finish.