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When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.
When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.
The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong
Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.
I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.
I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.
We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
[At] the end of the day, when we talk about cities, we talk about a gathering of people. And we cannot see that as a problem.
I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision
It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.
A democracy can't succeed without people's participation. 'MyGov' empowers the people of India to contribute towards Surajya.
It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.
Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.
I am lucky to get the opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me.
We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.
You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.
If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.
I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will fight you guys.
Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.