Quotes About Inspiration

if we want to cultivate achievement-driven motivation, we need to create an environment that values and emphasizes output.

How you handle your own time is, in my view, the single most important aspect of being a role model and leader.

what self-actualization means: the need to achieve one's utter personal best in a chosen field of endeavor. Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

By elevating someone, we are, in effect, creating role models for others in our organization.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

Boredom is the only real tragedy for a writer; everything else is material.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

I think I'm the fucking man. I think I'm cool as fuck, and I'm happy with that. And I'm happy to live my life this way because I find it a source of motivation.

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The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.

There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively!

Songs and ballads"—the musician bowed—"never end, dear lady, because poetry is eternal and immortal, it knows no beginning, it knows no end—

We poets have to know about everything," said Dandelion haughtily. "Otherwise we'd compromise our work. One has to learn, my dear fellow, learn.

Inter arma silent Musae.