External Motivation Quotes

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.

I don't organize myself sufficiently to get an album of material together, book the studio, and go. I need to be kicked; I need to be forced physically to go in. That's how it works for me. I'll get a great idea in the house, and it'll stay there unless somebody comes and drags it out of me!

I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents proud. I didn't even like the sport at the time, but it didn't matter to me.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.

At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

It's only work if somebody makes you do it.

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.

We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?