#motivate

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#how #impressive #matter #mediocrity #motivate

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#alcoholic #anything #benefit #father #having

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose. ↗

— Tyson Gay

#i do #keep #lose #lotta #me

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#allow #because #being #burn #cash

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more. ↗

— John Krasinski

#because #going #just #logical #more

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#could #find #get #hard #i

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#curiosity #desire #motivated #primarily #scientist