Motivated Quotes - Page 23

• What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

  Helene D. Gayle

  People, Focus, Going Out

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The extraordinary fact is that the first idea I had which motivated me, that worked, is conjecture, a mathematical idea which may or may not be true. And that idea is still unproven. It is the foundation, what started me and what everybody failed to **** prove has so far defeated the greatest efforts by experts to be proven.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Ideas, Effort, Foundation

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Motivated people are passionate! They love what they do and they are full of themselves (in the nicest possible way). Their enthusiasm and excitement are catching and they attract other people's interest and attention.

  Lynda Field

  People, Attention, Passionate

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• I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

  Ryan Holmes

  People, Challenges, Problem

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• The message is every genre, every person, is the real message. Some people just say it in different ways. What I learned today is that not only do I respect you and always have, but I'm also so inspired. I'm so motivated. I really appreciate it.

  DJ Khaled

  Real, People, Appreciate

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• Most injuries happen when you're not motivated, too, and you're forcing yourself to do something. Your mind's not aligned with your body and you're just going through the motions. That's when you're most likely to get injured.

  Chris Sharma

  Mind, Body, Injury

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like that's worked up until now.

  Chris Sharma

  Climbing, Years, Stronger

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.

  Deepak Chopra

  Effort, Desire, Our Actions

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• I've always enjoyed taking pre-existing sound, songs I like, songs I want to share, and manipulating them and trying to do my own version. So just knowing there's that potential for that thing out there that I haven't discovered yet, really gets me motivated every day.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Knowing, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we are not motivated in any way to do. In other words, I'm an "internalist" about morality.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Psychology, Demand

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• 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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• The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Letting Go, Motivation, Pride

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• The truth is that the terrorists are motivated by an ideology. It has nothing to do with what we do. They will give you all the excused to justify their terrorism. They will blame the victim. But the truth is that they are doing all these killings because they are waging Jihad. They will continue killing us until we submit and surrender. What they want is establishment of Khalifat worldwide.

  Ali Sina

  Giving, Want, Blame

  Source: myislam.dk

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• There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Women, Race

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• He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Intelligent, Boss, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  Albert Camus

  Life And Death, Evil, Unity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me.

  Mel Ramos

  Important, Trying, Ritual

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• To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

  J.D. Roth

  Mean, Wine, Able

  J. D. Roth (2010). “Your Money: The Missing Manual”, p.24, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• A rare book at once of great importance and wonderful to read.... Gould presents a fascinating historical study of scientific racism, tracing it through monogeny and polygeny, phrenology , recapitulation, and hereditarian IQ theory. He stops at each point to illustrate both the logical inconsistencies of the theories and the prejudicially motivated, albeit unintentional, misuse of data in each case.... A major addition to the scientific literature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Data, Racism

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• I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Moving, Political

  "Michael Sandel: This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.

  Rick Warren

  Fire, Goal, Whole

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Mind, Trying, Becoming

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