The personality problem is so tough when you’re not able to pay people. It’s bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. – John Badham
These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again. – Kim Clijsters
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline. – Jerome Hines
There’s always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don’t really care what people think. – Kimi Raikkonen
Nations don’t have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk. – Joanne Liu
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it’s time for me to move away from the game. – Michael Jordan
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so. – Panayiotis Zavos
While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it’s possible that I’m a victim of my own job description. Others don’t inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money. – Seth Shostak
Y’know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. – Paul Twitchell
My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that’s what I look for in the material I read: if it’s asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it’s a context that I find interesting. – Rose McIver
Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation. – Paul Buchheit
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. – Russell Banks
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. – Orson Scott Card
I used to think that if someone gained their weight back, it was my fault, but all I can do is be God’s motivator and try to instill the motivation in others so they do it themselves. – Richard Simmons
The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don’t necessarily want the audience to know my motivation. – Oscar Isaac
I’m a transactional lawyer, which involves a lot of negotiation. If nothing else, that’s given me a good eye for human motivation and frequent case studies in peculiar psychological quirks. I think that’s served me fairly well as a writer. – Paul S. Kemp
For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I’m doing, and I’m lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It’s something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out – that’s what I like. – Stanislas Wawrinka
I’ll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. – Tim Tebow
My main motivation is not to get bored. I’m just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation. – Vikram Seth
I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have. – Tommy Caldwell
If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I’ve seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don’t see it as a deficiency. – Yossi Vardi
I love to run. When the weather’s bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation. – Tom Riley
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That’s what I love. – Spike Lee
When you have good runners, you always run fast. That’s the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start. – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce