Motivated Quotes - Page 24

• I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Want, Inspired, Achieve

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• I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Careers, Important

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• I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.

  Terry Leahy

  Childhood, Parent, Doe

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• The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.

  Robert Genn

  Guy, May, Inspired

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• In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Adversity, Difficulty

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Angel, Self, Hands

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.

  David Letterman

  Country, Interesting, Office

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• My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivation, Passion, People

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Needs, Succeed, Scared

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

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• Like a raisin in the sun; that will swivel up and fade away. Your success dreams will swivel up and fade away, if you are not motivated enough to work for them.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Dream, Sun

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• Successful people are often times highly motivated people.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Successful, Mad

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• Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.

  Nate Diaz

  Sports, Mma, Trying

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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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