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“Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.”

People Ifs Thinking Enough Character Motivation Acting Too Much Profession Marvelous Enough Time

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“Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.”

Ifs Different Would Be Motivation Sex Support Too Much Type Offers Financial Clubs Colleagues Competing Supportive Sex Work

Author:Molly Crabapple

“You don't get any mixtapes, you know, 'cause I don't like my voice in there. I want to be that, but that's just not me, you know. And I'm very impatient; if I don't do it right, I'll be like, well, 'Ok that's the best I'm gonna do it.' Because I feel like if you take too much time on something, you lose the motivation for it.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Wells Motivation Causes Voice Loses Too Much Impatient Mixtapes

Author:Ginuwine

“If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Should Self Pain Motivation Differences Compassion Too Much Determination Increase Contemplation Remedy Distress Versus Unconditional Another Way Self Centered

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

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“I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“Having great components is not enough, and yet we've been obsessed in medicine with components. We want the best drugs, the best technologies, the best specialists, but we don't think too much about how it all comes together.”

Thinking Want Enough Inspiration Together Motivation Technology Too Much Drug Medicine Obsessed Components Specialists Best Technology

Author:Atul Gawande

“We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.”

Inspiration Might Romance Young Motivation Talking Technology Too Much Like You Lovers Spoil Young Love Smitten

Author:Sherry Turkle

“The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.”

Mean Littles Life Is Motivation Found Leadership Too Much Lows Capacity Tragedy Complacency Wasted Life Untapped Potential

Author:Benjamin E. Mays