No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.
I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
There's nothing like living a little close to the edge that gets you motivated to ensure that you get the credentials you need to succeed.
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.
During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into lending support to charity.
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are com...
For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a bunch of really skilled people making something. And that's what you have.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
As a younger actor, my motivation may have been 'Do you want that job or don't you?' Now it's 'Do you want to look like crap on film?'
What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.
