"Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage."
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"Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
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"You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior."
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"Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it."
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"Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined."
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"It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God."
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"Bad excuses are worse than none."
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"Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation."
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"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."
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"Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them."
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"The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important."
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"Carpe per diem - seize the check."
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"I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't."
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"Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it."
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"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."
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"The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated."
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"I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied."
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"We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else."
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"If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life."
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