Unmotivated Quotes

• When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Intellectual, Skins, Doe

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• You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Workout, Tired, Games

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• Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

  Ricardo Semler

  Men, Long, Bored

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Lazy

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• I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

  Michael Zaslow

  Play, Want, Behavior

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• Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Inspirational, Engagement, World

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• Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Hair

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• The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

  Edwin H Friedman

  People, Understanding, Assumption

  Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.9, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.

  Bethany Mota

  Who I Am, People, Community

  "True Life: I'm A YouTube Star". Interview with Kristin Tice Studeman, www.elle.com. March 13, 2014.

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• The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Sacrifice, Dancing

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. xxxii, 1945.

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• To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Character, Film, Worst

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• The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Team

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• Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

  Susan Cain

  Memories, Insecure, People

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.84, Broadway Books

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The professor husband of a friend of mine has likened children to the insane. I often think of it. He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained.

  Claire Messud

  Dream, Children, Husband

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.18, Vintage

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• ...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.

  Patricio Aylwin

  Power, Men, Issues

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• Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

  Toni Morrison

  Toni Morrison (1998). “Paradise”, Knopf

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• As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

  Savannah Guthrie

  Mom, School, Lazy

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• The experience we all share and the outcomes, which have been remarkable in a way I never could have predicted. Taking unmotivated people - maybe marginally motivated to get on TV and make money - and ending up with a group that values and is changed by the treatment process and wants to share it with other people.

  Drew Pinsky

  People, Groups, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Girls have to fight against a lot of the same stuff we did growing up... peer pressure, exploitation, etc. But what worries me the most is this trend that caring about something isn't cool. That it's better to comment on something than to commit to it. That it's so much cooler to be unmotivated and indifferent.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Growing Up, Caring

  "SNL's Amy Poehler: Smart Girls Have More Fun". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.alternet.org. December 2, 2008.

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• Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

  Arlene Francis

  Thinking, Self, Might

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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