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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
If I'm like, 'Oh, this is not something that I want to do,' that means I have to do it. That's always a good motivation.
[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.
Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.
When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.
There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.
People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.
Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.
A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.
I too was naughty as a child & played pranks. The child within us has to be kept alive because that child keeps us alive.
Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.
You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.
My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.
Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.
People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.
I think that that the main problem with a lot of social media stuff in terms of ratings is it's a very skewed motivation.
I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.
We have a choice to make during our brief visit to this beautiful blue and green living planet: to hurt it or to help it.
I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.
Get Julian Jackson in here baby!...Julian Jackson, winner take all baby, that's all I gotta say, winner take all! Arghhh!
I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.
I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.
But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.
An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.
I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.
Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible.
In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
Earlier we used to play with snakes, but now we play with mouse. Through IT, India's youth has surprised the entire World!
Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.
If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out!
I'll help out in ways to inspire others and ways to get people together and bring about things to help people financially.
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful.
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
Whatever your cause, whatever your motivation, I hope you'll agree with me that volunteer service is an extraordinary gift.