Suzy Kassem Quotes

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

The motivations I had for being successful were somewhat dysfunctional.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction

The only person who can really motivate you is you.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.

The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse - when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.

You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled?

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life)