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• My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

  Michael Pollan

  Good Food, More Money, Seeking

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• Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

  Chris Hadfield

  Inspirational, Team, Goal

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Perfect, Way, Path

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Apr 18, 2017

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• God's leaders should be motivated by humility and love.

  Karen Wheaton

  Humility, Leader, And Love

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• Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Heart, Pride

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• Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.

  Nhat Hanh

  Wisdom, Mean, Home

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• If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Past, Trying, Boards

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders were not widely available. There was no cassette tape back then. It was a Sears Roebuck tape machine. I put a microphone in the window and recorded the ambience.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Ideas, Tape, Machines

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are hoping to serve. So this is just a part of my nature and I think everybody else's nature to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only then that we can locate that willingness to serve.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Critical Moments, May

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• Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Groups, Problem

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reason for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups.

  Richard Dawkins

  Baby, Sex, Past

  Source: inters.org

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• I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to things that scare me. They might be things that I don't think I know how to play. I like trying to find within me where this character may exist. Whether is it is a fictional character or not I am not motivated by that. It is more about how challenging it is. It is just so happens that the more high profile things I have done have been historical characters.

  David Oyelowo

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• My mother found a way out of a little one-bedroom apartment in Athens, Greece to bring Arianna to Cambridge to study economics and bring me to the Royal Academy in London with very few financial resources and no connections. She didn't know anybody in England, but she found a way. Her love for her daughters and seeing what they could be, motivated her and gave her the chutzpah, the courage, to break down barriers. When you have the motivation of love, you will find the way.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Daughter, Mother, Motivation

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• People need to be inspired. They need to hear and believe a story. If you want them to be self-motivated, you need to engage them.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Believe, Self, People

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Wall, War

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Creative, Problem

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.

  Julian Castro

  Thinking, Community, Presidential

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That changed Canadian politics forever. If they stay motivated, and believe me, they are, no party can ever get a majority mandate again without winning at least 60 per cent of those voters. There hasn't been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasn't thrown stones at.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Party, Believe, Winning

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically motivated. I felt that the world from an early age was disappointing. My father taught me about the bomb, and it was eye-opening. From then on, I thought grown-ups needed to do a better job. I still think that.

  Patti Smith

  Jobs, Father, Eye

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Thinking, Voice, Generations

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• These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Living with [Bernard] Leach, who thought about pottery 24 hours a day, was a fantastic experience, and we really began to get inside his mind and understand what had motivated him to work all his life as a potter.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Mind, Potters, Pottery

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.

  Valentino Rossi

  Motivation, Years, Gps

  Source: www.cycleworld.com

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• When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.

  Johnny Mathis

  Strong, Proud, Kind

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Rap, Hip Hop

  "James Vincent McMorrow, On the Move". Interview with Pimploy Phongsirivech, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2016.

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