Quotes About Drive

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Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Faster' by the Manic Street Preachers:

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.

Get the motherfucker. Stay the hell away from him, but go get him. It's what you do now. And if

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.

Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.

what self-actualization means: the need to achieve one's utter personal best in a chosen field of endeavor. Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

operator matrix,

The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.

Knowledge is not enough. You must take action!

Ma, per dirla col vampiro Regis, procedere senza meta era meglio che stare fermi senza meta, e molto meglio che arretrare senza meta

If I want something, I don't dream of it—I act. And I always get what I want.

Leading is doing. To lead, I must move forward.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.

Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Instead of pondering about what if or what could have been, I'm just going to go out there and do.

You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.