Quotes About Drive

We had heard a world of talk about the marvellous beauty of Lake Tahoe, and finally curiosity drove us thither to see it.

You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I reckon they howl like that because they're so hungry it hurts, and that's what I feel in me every day of my life. I'm so hungry to be somethin' - to be somebody. You hear me?' He did. 'I'm not lyin' down ever. Not for you. Not for anyone.' I ended it. 'I'm hungry, Steve.' Sometimes I think they're the best words I've ever said. 'I'm hungry.

What is it that people do? What do we live to do, the way a horse lives to run?

What had Van Gogh said? I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Ne?u re?i da sam imala priro?enog dara za ples ili za bilo što drugo, ali sam zasigurno bila spremna uporno raditi dok ne postignem cilj.

We take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something.

I have been pursuing my own train of thought for more than thirty years, undisturbed by all this, just because it is what I must do, and I could not do otherwise, out of an instinctive drive which is nonetheless supported by the confidence that what is thought truly and what throws light on obscurity will be grasped at some point by another thinking mind.XX

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Goodman and I went out for a meal together in town and then for a drive.

You need to reach down and touch the thing that's boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion. (reebok,chiat/day.)Just do it. (Nike, Weiden and Kennedy.)Dammit something just isn't right. (Me, to my bathroom mirror at four thirty in the morning when I'm plastered.)

It doesn't matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. The work, not the people. Your own action, not any possible object of your charity.

Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being? -The man without purpose.

She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

I always know what I want. And when you know what you want - you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.