I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I’ll whip out paints. It’s tough to find the motivation, but it’s also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing. – Dichen Lachman
I don’t think it’s a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don’t know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical. – Daniel H. Pink
I’ve heard people on panels say, ‘You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,’ and I just want to say, ‘Shut up. Everything you’re saying is wrong.’ People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books. – Maureen Johnson
Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. – Nicola Sturgeon
I’m not saying I like to be kicked, but it’s good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation. – Eden Hazard
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation. – Gael Garcia Bernal
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. – Desi Arnaz
I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn’t have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn’t have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn’t have given me this edge I had in America. – Daniel Boulud
I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can’t do it, I’m trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder. – Erin Andrews
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don’t become an artist. – Mary Gordon
At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand. – Maurice Allais
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays. – Mark Rylance
It’s a big deal to reveal your friend’s deepest truth, your friend’s deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there’s a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision. – Gene Luen Yang
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. – Michael Shermer
When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it’s difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country. – Max Martini
If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be ‘liberty.’ That’s what inspires me and motivates me more than anything – just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means. – Michele Bachmann
My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That’s what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people. – Maurice Allais
Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life. – Juliana Hatfield
I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don’t need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA. – Kawhi Leonard
Exercise plays a huge role in keeping me sane, and that’s my primary motivation to ‘find time.’ – Jessica Scorpio
Personally, I’ve never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn’t my motivation in life. It kind of happened. – John Oates
The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win. – Jimmy Haynes
I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We’ve felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation. – Kim Yuna