Find Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Quotes to Lift Your Spirit - page 312

Have a vision. Be demanding.
Have a vision. Be demanding.
I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.
 Christopher Nolan
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
 Gwyneth Paltrow
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.
 Edith Widder
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
 Washington Irving
With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.
I'm boring but effective.
 Wladimir Klitschko
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
 Jim Henson
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.
Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
 Paul McCartney
All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect.
There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.
 Lyoto Machida
When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.
 Thomas Leonard
Sustained motivation is essential to achieving your potential.
 Grete Waitz
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's own experience...has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart.
 Murasaki Shikibu