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Motivation

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
Motivation

"I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on"

School Motivation Learning
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Motivation

"There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader."

Heart Life Motivation
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Motivation

"Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business."

Passion Sex Motivation
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Robert Heller Businessman
Motivation

"In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus."

Inspiration Motivation Teamwork
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
Motivation

"All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction."

Men Beautiful Motivation
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Motivation

"It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn."

People Motivation Ability
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Motivation

"If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing."

Writing Two Motivation
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Karen Allen Actress
Motivation

"For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him."

Opportunity Motivation Als
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Karen Russell Author
Motivation

"I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds."

Real Dark Motivation
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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Motivation

"There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are."

Mistake Focus Motivation
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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Motivation

"The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation ."

Self Artist Motivation
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Motivation

"I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level."

Book Two Motivation
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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Motivation

"It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people."

Believe Giving Motivation
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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Motivation

"Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary."

Beautiful Interesting Motivation
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