Motivation Quotes — Page 40

Spiritual Teacher, Author

“When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.”

Dream Motivation Nightmare

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Patti Smith

Musician

“I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.”

Fun Husband Motivation

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Edward Young

Poet, Playwright

“And all may do what has by man been done.”

Inspirational Motivation

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Elizabeth Moon

Science Fiction Author

“Motivation is the power behind plot.”

Motivation Behinds

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Paul Watson

Journalist

“There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.”

Law Motivation Ocean

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Daley Thompson

Athlete

“In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.”

Thinking Heart Motivation

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Cameron Russell

Model

“Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.”

Inspiration Growing Up Motivation

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Edward de Bono

Psychologist

“Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.”

Children Inspiration Motivation

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Political Activist, Diplomat

“Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.”

Real Reading Motivation

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

“I still can’t say whether I ever want children….I can only say how I feel now--grateful to be on my own. I also know that I won’t go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life; I don’t think this is a strong enough motivation to bring more babies onto the earth.”

Strong Baby Motivation

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

“Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.”

Self Waiting Motivation

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Ben Marcus

Author

“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”

Home Motivation Labs

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