Quotes About Drive

A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper than other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs, and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents.

Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something!

Selama masih memiliki keinginan, saya mempunyai alasan untuk hidup.

This was a puzzling world, as he often said, and if you drive your wagon in a hurry, you may light on an awkward corner. Mr. Riley, meanwhile, was not impatient.

I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.

People wonder what you are going to do after you've won the Champions League three times? Win it again, if I can.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

The wonderful police officers who spend time with me I don't think appreciate that, but I do still drive. I do still cook: not often, but just last week, I really felt like making one of my mum's old recipes - so I did. I do still go to our local department store to buy things like maternity jeans that no one else can really do for me.

If you walk away, don't walk away with something still left in the tank. Then you're wondering like, 'Man, what could I have done?' When I'm done playing, I want to leave it all out on the field.

As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove an LTD, not a Cadillac. Even now, I'm like that. If I'm on the 5th floor, I will wonder why I'm not on the 6th floor. But that was my drive. I was obsessed with my family having a better life.

'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

Tiger Woods makes me a better athlete.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.

I didn't want to be a man of words but of action.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

Know what it is that drives you - motivates you - and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.

We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results.