Underlying Motivation Quotes

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.

The thing I needed to learn about Miranda was where her motivation comes from when she gets upset. There's been a few times where Miranda's a brat or crying online, and it seems very surface level, and I think that I needed to learn where her insecurities came from, because online she just comes across as kind of bratty.

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

What is the why behind everything you do?

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.