#motivated

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. ↗

— Bob Beauprez

#commitment #dedicated #education #enthusiastic #expectations

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#international #leads #long #long run #motivated

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.' ↗

— Richard Dreyfuss

#already #because #community #decided #got

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#exploiting #extremists #fear #form #like

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#been #certainly #give #made #me

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#change #change things #feel #ideologically #iran

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#computer #death #fear #i #just

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#criticized #go #hard #information #mind

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#books #contempt #desire #even #glory

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#alcoholic #anything #benefit #father #having