Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfie Kohn

There are different kinds of motivation, and the kind matters more than the amount.

Alfie Kohn

Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Amy Tan

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

Amy Tan

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

Amory Lovins

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

Andy Stanley

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Amy Cuddy

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

Ann Richards

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

Ang Lee

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Anatole France

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Anatole France

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anne Frank

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Andrew Zuckerman

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Chuck Palahniuk

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Chuck Knox

If you could have won, you should have.

Chuck Klosterman

The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre people who want to be involved in rock and roll.

Christopher Nolan

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.

Christopher Walken

I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here? Where should I put the camera?" Or, "What's my motivation?" And I would say, "Do whatever you want!"

Christopher McDougall

We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs, they have claws, they have nimbleness, they have speed. We think Usain Bolt is fast - Usain Bolt can get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

Christopher McDougall

There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

Christopher Morley

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Anson Dorrance

You can never be fit enough for this game.

Andrew Card

He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.

Andrew Bird

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

Andrew Carnegie

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

Andrew Carnegie

Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.

Andrew Carnegie

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Andrew Carnegie

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andreas Schleicher

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

Angela Ruggiero

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Althea Gibson

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.