Motivated Quotes - Page 19

• People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Couple, Fighting, People

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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• The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions.

  Lynn Steen

  Teaching, School, Math

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• Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

  Barack Obama

  Religion, Democracy, Demand

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Writing, Animal, Interesting

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• How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.

  Elliot Easton

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that I want my children to have: that if they see a need, whether it's around the corner or thousands of miles of away, they should feel motivated to do whatever they can to help.

  Kate Snow

  Children, Teaching, Kids

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• You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

  Brad Feld

  People

  "You Can't Motivate People". www.businessinsider.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Real, Eye, Black And White

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• My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Political, Redemption, Moral

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• How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide.

  Marc Kielburger

  Purpose, Workplace, Kind

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• Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

  Shawn Achor

  Creative, Waiting, Brain

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• People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Guitar, People, Forget

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• Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

  David Rockefeller

  Monday, Business, Hard Work

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• 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.

  Josh Fox

  Motivation, Believe, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Heart, People

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• The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Views, Ideas

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• The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

  Ross Perot

  People, Goal, World

  Ross Perot (1996). “Ross Perot: My Life & the Principles for Success”, Summit Group

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• The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Success, Differences, Insanity

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• Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but right away I found that not eating meat made me feel good about myself. It increased my self-esteem, which I found so rewarding, I wanted to do more.

  Steve-O

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Entrepreneurs are motivated by independence as well as challenge, knowing they are ultimately responsible for themselves. Monetary success is certainly helpful, but it often becomes more of a score card than anything else.

  Donald Trump

  Knowing, Entrepreneur, Challenges

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• An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

  Nii Parkes

  Class, Differences, Despair

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• It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

  Bernard Holland

  Irony, Wells, Unfortunate

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• The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

  Pharrell Williams

  Ideas, People, Best Work

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