Motivated Quotes - Page 8

• Success ... seems to be connected with action.

  Conrad Hilton

  Success, Perseverance, Mistake

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• People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the "millionaire Conservative party donors". I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, Thinking, Views

  "Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible". www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• If you have a habit of declaring milestones or changing them based on the crisis of the day, don't expect the team to remain motivated. Similarly, if the team isn't aware of the milestone and the value behind it, they are unlikely to deliver.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Habit, Unlikely

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.

  Nick Rahall

  Compassion, People, Desire

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• If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which pleases the shareholders. It's not one of the enduring green mysteries of all time, it is just the way it works.

  Herb Kelleher

  Airline Business, Green, Way

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• I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

  Pierre Omidyar

  Successful, Technology, Interesting

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• Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Compassion, Punishment

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding”, p.25, PuddleDancer Press

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• To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Struggle

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Self, Perfectionist

  Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

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• If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

  Dalai Lama

  Technology, Hatred, Greed

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• Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

  David Elkind

  Children, Independent, Self

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it's so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that.

  Alexis Bledel

  Kids, Community, Foundation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.

  Christian Finnegan

  Sex, Pimp, Intellectual

  "Best Week Ever", www.imdb.com. (2004-).

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• Even with the most stupid video games, kids learn more about learning than they ever did before, because they want to learn codes and moves before other kids figure them out. They're motivated to seek out someone or search the Net for help. A student who makes a video game has to solve mathematical problems to make special effects happen on the screen.

  Seymour Papert

  Stupid, Moving, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Secret, Internet

  "Q&A: Bill Gates On Flying Cars, The Malaria Epidemic, And Article-Writing Robots". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 16, 2013.

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• There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Being The Best, Reason, Can Do

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  People, Violence, Movement

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• I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me. . . .

  LaVell Edwards

  Spring, Years, Practice

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Museums, Drug

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• You can't be an absentee entrepreneur and expect the team to stay motivated.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Entrepreneur, Stay Motivated

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Keys, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If you want to be in this business [acting], do it for the right reasons. Don't be in it because you want to be a celebrity. Be in it because you really love the work, and the work keeps you up at night, and it keeps you motivated, and it wakes you up early in the morning because you have ideas.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Morning, Night, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• As a student of the game, it is a dream come true to align myself with a brand that has a rich history in sports. Like most kids, I grew up idolizing Michael Jordan and continue to work relentlessly to reach his iconic status on the court. I'm truly motivated to take my career to the next level as a member of Team Jordan.

  Maya Moore

  Sports, Dream, Team

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• This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur—who is not afraid and is resourceful, motivated and fast moving—all give us an advantage.

  Yossi Vardi

  Moving, Israel, Giving

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