The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment
— Dorian Yates
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Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week.
How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
You've got to block out all distractions when you train.
Your focus has to be 100% into the rep. You've got to get into a zone. You know you're in the zone when guys in the gym look you in the eye and then quickly turn away 'cause they see the fire. You've got to be all business.
If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.
It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before.
There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.
If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.
You don't have to win to be a winner.
If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.
You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

My doctor told me that I drastically needed to lose weight.
Fear of death and dying motivated meto make many lifestyle changes that led me to eventually shed over 100 pounds.
What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success.
I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'
I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training.
I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.
I just find it crazy what people will critique you on, and you have to take it with a grain of salt. I could be curing cancer, and I would be shunned for it. I mean, that's just the truth. People are crazy, but I like to say for every hater I have 100 people that love me and they think it's motivational, so I try to focus on that. But it's sometimes hard, you know?

I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.
The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?
The Austrian theory of subjective value teaches us that there are many ways to incentivize or motivate or induce someone to commit an action for you: you can promise sexual favors, promise to pay money, hire someone, and so on. Also, there is no reason to think that both the boss and his underling cannot both be 100% responsible: in the law this is called joint and several liability.

Never, ever, ever give 100% in anything you do. . . Always give more!
Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to!
One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north, I won't reveal what passes through your mind when you're getting out of the bus.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you're always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.
Take risks that could result in Greatness! Wayne Gretsky said, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

The typical Walmart today offers you 100,000 products.
If you improve 1% a day, then in 100 days, guess what? You're 100% better.
Today, you have 100% of your life left.

All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.