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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

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.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

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.

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.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.