Clay Shirky Quotes

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

What holds attention determines action.

He who does not want does not act.

What you can do is a matter of what you will do.

Anything I do, I'm doing it for a reason.

The key to motivation is motive.

Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

Each day is a day of decision.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

What people CAN do is very different from what they WILL do.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.

What happens next is up to you.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Kitten, you need to make a decision. Either we stay here and behave or we leave now and I promise you”—his voice dipped lower and the words fell against my lips—“if we leave, I won’t behave.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.