motivation

"I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical."

"Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are."

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

"I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end."

"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing."

"We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas."

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds."

"Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that."

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

"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 am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God."

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."

"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."

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

"Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know."

"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."

"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."