Quotes About Drive

When you want something badly enough it's amazing what you'll ignore.

Ambition is your special ware And you have dared to call it passion.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.

In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

I'm creating songs. I do it most of the time, in the car or in the house.

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

I don't spend too much time just kicking back.

Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

El amor y la locura son los motores que hacen andar la vida.

Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.