Sam Waterston Quotes

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

He that is won with a nut, may be lost with an apple.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Tell me sufficiently why a thing should be done, and I will move heaven and earth to do it.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

You don't have to twist my arm to work.

Winning is motivation.

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

Boredom is a great motivator.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome

You win them to what you win them with.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action