You want an audience. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it. – Andy Weir
For so long I wanted to win the gold medal. Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again. – Bryan Clay
I got fitter when I did ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.’ I wore a loincloth – that’s a lot of motivation! – Donny Osmond
My hope is that each of the villains I write will have his or her own motivation that readers can understand, whether they agree or disagree. – Cullen Bunn
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire – the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. – Ellen Ochoa
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football. – Gary Neville
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life. – Ezekiel Emanuel
The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writer’s main motivation is to become friends with the band. They’re not really journalists; they’re people who want to be involved in rock and roll. – Chuck Klosterman
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, ‘Why wasn’t that better?’ Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt – I have got to prove myself wrong. – Michael Palin
One motivation for the ‘Soul Train’ awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows. – Don Cornelius
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation. – Dorothy Denning
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down. – Eminem
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm. – Dorothy Denning
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it. – Edmund Hillary
Some of the martial arts films, the motivation is about martial arts. That’s where it’s coming from. It is a visual, commercial film, to showcase the next stunt, the biggest thing. And character development becomes a side thing. – Michelle Yeoh
I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn’t bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away. – Manfred Mann
Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at a high level and continues to get better with each book. That’s really what you want to emulate. – Michael Koryta
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. – Nora Roberts
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful – if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. – Markus Wolf
If people are really excited about their music, and that’s their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That’s the most important ingredient. – Greg Ginn
It doesn’t matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesn’t give me more or less motivation. – Monica Seles
You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time. – Marvin Hagler
I can’t conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That’s why I decided to live in New York. – Daniel Boulud
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge. – Dan Ariely