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The Motivation Quotes

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
- Desi Arnaz

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
- Hans Blix

The motivation
of all religious practice is similar:
love, sincerity, honesty.
The way of life
of practically all religious persons
is consistent.
The teachings
of tolerance, love, and compassion
are the same.
- Dalai Lama

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
- Orson Scott Card

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.
- Julian Clary

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.
- Kim Clijsters

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

- Richard Dawkins

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
- Dorothy Denning

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.
- Donna Dixon

When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
- Carlos Ghosn

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'
- Joseph Gordonlevitt

The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win.
- Jimmy Haynes

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.
- Jerome Hines

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
- Sebastian Horsley

A brick and a blanket can be used as reasons to go on searching, when you've found all the obvious applications for the brick and the blanketand immediately discarded thembut you lost the motivation to keep thinking, and you've lost hope that you will discover any new uses for them. Thus the brick and the blanket become symbols for creativity and perseverance.
- Jarod Kintz

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
- Hamid Karzai

Love conquers nothing. Love provides the motivation; the person must do the rest with their own hands, heart, and feet.
- Amber Kizer

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
- Spike Lee

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation.
Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or
whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what?
After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation
comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.
- John C Maxwell

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
- Mary Mcdonnell

The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
- Michael Moore

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.
- Cheryl Nielsen

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.
- Anne Parillaud

Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do.
- Vince Poscente

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
- Pat Riley

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
- Sidney Sheldon

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
- James Sinegal

Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.
- Jefferson Smith

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
- Sonia Sotomayor

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
- James Taylor

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
- Katarina Witt

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