“Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!”
Motivated feeling
Motivated Quotes — page 215 of 381
“Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.”
“I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
“Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.”
“The willing horse is always overworked.”
“Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
“I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.”
“The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.”
“Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.”
“If you want to fly, you have to flap your own wings!”
“I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.”
“I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.”
“For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.”
“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”
“I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.”
“Profit per se is not my motive.”
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
“When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.”
“When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.”
“In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.”