Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Moore

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

John P. Kotter

Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.

Mike Tyson

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

Mike Tyson

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

Mike Tyson

One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record-and it doesn't include my juvenile history.

Mike Tyson

I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

Mike Tyson

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Mike Tyson

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Mike Tyson

We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.

Mike Tyson

These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

Mike Tyson

If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.

Mike Tyson

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Mike Tyson

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

Mike Tyson

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

Mike Tyson

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

Miguel de Cervantes

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

John Negroponte

We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

John Wanamaker

Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

Mark Zuckerberg

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Terry Moore

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

Margaret Heffernan

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Margaret Heffernan

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Halsey

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Marco Tempest

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

Kimi Raikkonen

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

Michael Fassbender

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like? What I do is put that together.

Melinda Gates

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Michele Bachmann

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.