Explore purpose, discipline, and what helps people begin and sustain effort.
"Revenge should not be our motivation."
"Lost on Mulholland Drive"
"I hate niggas! I hate em! I wish they'd let me join the Ku Klux Klan! Shit, I'd be doing a drive-by from here to Brooklyn!"
"Many were aware that it was not necessary to ask Vladika to visit someone. The Lord Himself inspired him where and to whom to go."
"The answer to the problem of the American car is not under its hood. ...The best car-related innovation we have is not to improve the car but to eliminate the need to drive it everywhere we go."
"I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don’t have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we st…"
"The intellectual abstraction of the second period of Cubism was of great importance, however. By its aspirations to the eternal and its 'concept of proportion inspired by the Classics' it revived the …"
"The prohibition of the expression of the sex drive, i.e., between consenting adults in private, lies outside the legal sphere."
"I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them."
"It was for that reason, feeling as I did, that I was driven into the course which I embraced in December, 1916, when I accepted Mr. Bonar Law's offer to serve as his Parliamentary Secretary. I did tha…"
"Push on,—keep moving."
"There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which i…"
"John here," the other John said, "pioneered the concept of marketing by refusing to sell any products. It drives the market insane."
"Home-made dishes that drive one from home."
"What motivates you, then? Please don’t tell me altruism. I am not quite so gullible as that."
"I am inspired by New York..."
"Grossly oversimplifying, the following models of mind can be discerned in the welter of contemporary psychological theorizing. The first model of the mind is mind as an energy system. This is represen…"
"Jazz musicians have some outlaw in them somewhere if they are serious about this music...The is no valid motivation for it other than love– outlaw motivation in a profit-motivated society."
"As the Economic Policy Institute reported, "What income growth there was over the 1979-1989 period was driven primarily by more work at lower wages."
"He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted."
Authors on motivation gaining momentum today
Mao Zedong
Theresa May
Elias Canetti
Lewis Carroll
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexander Suvorov
William S. Burroughs
Herbert A. Simon
George W. Bush
Warren Farrell
Jay Samit
Lal Bahadur Shastri