Otto Rank Quotes

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Of course it's nice to get recognition, but I'm not looking for it. I just do my thing. If it comes, it comes. But it's not what you play for.

Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

When I play, I'm playing for myself and I'm playing for my family too.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don't crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

I'm not really into all this trying to be No. 1, trying to be King of New York. I'm not with that, I'm just trying to do the best I can and know at the end of the day I gave it my best.

Looking back, I can't say I got any real satisfaction from so many people being interested in what I looked like.

I'm just glad that people think I'm good. The other way around would not be fun!

You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.