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"Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil."
"Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction."
"One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world."
"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new."
"We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation."
"As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed."
"Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right"
"The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic."
"Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation."
"Fractures well cured make us more strong."
"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
"The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can."
"There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear."
"Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight."
"To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire."
"Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers."
"Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact."
"Motivation is a lotta crap."
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
"Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor."
