Quotes About Drive

I was always tenacious.

Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.

Your tenacity is a larger deciding factor in your success than however good or bad an actor you may be. I feel like that's just something that cannot be overstated enough for people getting into the business. You have to really want it more than anybody else.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

In many ways, Nog is a lot like me, like the way he goes after Starfleet with such tenacity, much the same way I went after my acting career when I started out.

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.

The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.

Tennis has given me soul.

In tennis, a lot of parents are accused of driving their kids into tennis. I would say I'm the opposite: I drove my parents into it. They didn't take it that seriously until I was about 11 or 12 years old, when they realised I had an opportunity to go pro.

When I think about it, the happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving something that matters to them. They remind me of a dog chasing a tennis ball: Their eyes go a little crazy, the leash snaps and they go bounding off, plowing through whatever gets in the way.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

You can ask a lot of the people around me - I'm very demanding. I expect them to be as intense about my tennis on a daily basis as I am.

I can tell you that tennis is a huge motivation for me.

I'll prove that I'm going to be the best tennis player, one day, to play this game.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

You can absolutely drive through an atmospheric bomb test and not be affected.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.