“Nothing can motivate me any more than I'm already motivated. It just can't happen. Me being motivated was never a factor. Never.”
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Dave Bautista 7
American actor and professional wrestler 1969Related quotes
“Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.”
"Saina Nehwal Interview: Sportskeeda Exclusive" https://www.sportskeeda.com/badminton/saina-nehwal-interview-sportskeeda-exclusive (19 April 2012)
“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
Rectorial Address, St. Andrew's (3 May 1922)
“I'm motivated by the fear of being an average.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfV-ndshd4/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
In response https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/a3aGosA987cZ4aRAB/online-discussion-is-better-than-pre-publication-peer-review#TkXmTc5Sxnt9GhyZS to someone suggesting that status is not a motivator for Dai, September 2017
Context: I think status is in fact a significant motivation even for me, and even the more "pure" motivations like intellectual curiosity can in some sense be traced back to status. It seems unlikely that [updateless decision theory] would have been developed without the existence of forums like extropians, everything-list, and LW, for reasons of both motivation and feedback/collaboration.
Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 63
“True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
"Originals Graphics Multiples" (1973) <!-- as quoted in Man Ray : American Artist (1988) by Neil Baldwin, p. 323 -->
Context: An original is a creation motivated by desire.
Any reproduction of an original is motivated by necessity.
The original is the result of an automatic process, the reproduction, of a mechanical process. In other words: Inspiration then information; each validates the other.
All other considerations are beyond the scope of these statements.
It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.