Motivation Quotes - Page 15

• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Inspiration, Fake, Psychology

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

  Tom Peters

  Work, Numbers, Long

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• We are not wise enough, pure enough, or strong enough to aim and sustain such a single motive over a lifetime. That way lies fanaticism or failure. But if the single motive is the master motivation of God's calling, the answer is yes. In any and all situations, both today and tomorrow's tomorrow, God's call to us is the unchanging and ultimate whence, what, why, and whither of our lives. Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

  Os Guinness

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  Os Guinness (2003). “The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

  Daphne Koller

  Inspiration, Creativity, Talking

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• One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

  Zainab Salbi

  Military, Inspiration, Years

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• A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspiration, Suffering, Quality

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• It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

  Joshua Prince-Ramus

  Inspiration, Architecture

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• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Inspiration, Artist, Numbers

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• I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.

  Mark Cuban

  Lying, Passion, Successful

  "MARK CUBAN: Here's What You Need To Know Before Starting A Business" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2012.

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• Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

  Barbra Streisand

  Life, Couple, People

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• When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Tunnels, Gold

  Robert H. Schuller (2002). “The Be Happy Attitudes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Doe, Firsts

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• It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Girl, Play

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• The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

  Nonito Donaire

  Dream, Heart, Goal

  "Donaire vs Mathebula: Nonito Donaire on Drug Testing, Training, and a Taller Opponent". Press conference, www.badlefthook.com. June 28, 2012.

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• Heartbreak is the best motivation.

  Brendon Urie

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• We all really need to listen to each other, including to the boring bits.

  Sherry Turkle

  Inspiration, Needs, Boring

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• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Inspiration

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• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Inspiration, Fighting

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• Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

  Jane McGonigal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

  Jon Ronson

  Inspiration, Manifestation, Remorseless

  "Strange answers to the psychopath test". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Inspiration, Justice, Shapes

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• Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

  Keith Barry

  Inspiration, Hands, Magic

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• We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Inspiration, Thinking

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• It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Inspirational, People, Dangerous

  "Putin jabs U.S., Obama in op-ed, says Syria strike would be 'act of aggression'" By Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2013.

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• The best motivation is self-motivation.

  Jim Rohn

  Self, Self Motivation

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