Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daley Thompson

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

Daley Thompson

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

David Byrne

We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

Dave Matthews

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

David Letterman

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

David Blaine

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

David Joyner

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

Deepak Chopra

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

Debbie Meyer

Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

Dean Martin

Motivation is a lotta crap.

Debi Thomas

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

Debi Thomas

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

Andre Agassi

Being number two sucks.

Andre Agassi

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Andre Agassi

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

Andre Agassi

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Anna Sewell

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

Cillian Murphy

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep.

Chuck Noll

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Chuck Norris

I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.

Chuck Norris

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

Chuck Norris

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.

Alfred Hitchcock

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

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.

Hopefully, the team used it as motivation throughout the summer,

Carl Jung

Where there is life, there is hope.

Carl Jung

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Mike Miller

If we have an opportunity to keep it from spreading, shouldn't we do so? A big part of our motivation was to keep it off the Western Slope. It was real nice idea that was probably 10, 15 or 20 years too late.