Demotivating Quotes

#1. Some leaders expect the team to read their minds on priorities, so they never provide the written and verbal guidance that we all need to feel we are contributing. Others can be heard shouting new priorities on an hourly basis. Both habits are very demotivating.

Martin Zwilling

#2. There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.

Dan Ariely

#3. Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.

Martin Zwilling

#4. Too much empty enthusiasm can even be demotivating, if not supported by the right skills and a lot of elbow grease.

Derek Murphy

#5. With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.

Hideo Kojima

#6. What I think of when I think of nu-metal: structured, heavy music that has a point. It's angry just like all the other music, but the bigger parts are bigger and the powerful parts are more powerful and the slow parts slower.

Austin Carlile

#7. I discovered my own story and I fell in love with it.

Ricky Martin

#8. It's why a kid army makes sense. Adults don't waste their time on magical thinking. They dwell on the same inconvenient truths that

Rick Yancey

#9. Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

Yukio Mishima

#10. The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

Betsy Byars

#11. I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.

Ben Bradlee

#12. It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Phyllis Schlafly

#13. So you aren't hurting anyone at all. Well,crud.This made things more complicated.

Kiersten White

#14. I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

George W. Bush

#15. When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

Brian James

#16. I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

Phyllis Logan

#17. If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. Which god ruled your nameyear?"
"Sewing."
She squinted, then laughed.
He smiled a little, yet said, "You shouldn't laugh."
She laughed harder.
"Actually, I sew quite well.

Marie Rutkoski