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When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.
I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.
Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.
Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.
If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.
Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.
Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.
I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
I have had bad times, but I never lost my motivation to work and make an effort so that in the moments I got to play I could be at my best.
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.
The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.
To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.
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.
There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.
I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
Energy security based on clean & reliable sources is essential for India's future. Nuclear energy has a key role in India's energy strategy.
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.
My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.
My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.
Our diversity is not something that is on paper. It is the manifestation of our strength. It is not only our identity but also our tradition.
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.
We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.
My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.
India has seen a dream of Digital India. From latest science to latest technology, everything should be available at the tip of one's finger.
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.
Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.
Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.
I had to come to the United States to prove myself. I fought for a long time in England and a lot of people thought I was a protected fighter.
People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.
Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.