Quotes About Drive

which of the nine basic motives the buyer will respond

but the urge to continue was stronger than the desire to quit.

there is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

Practical dreamers DO NOT QUIT!

all these considerations disappear because you have your mind on much bigger and better things.

The beast in this book is not just the bell curve and the self-deceiving statistician, nor the Platonified scholar who needs theories to fool himself with. It is the drive to "focus" on what makes sense to us. Living on our planet, today, requires a lot more imagination than we are made to have. We lack imagination and repress it in others.

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within.

ambition is a talisman more powerful than witchcraft.

Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that mattered.

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

But as an artist, Ezra wanted to be more than just acceptable. He wanted to be exceptional. Because if he couldn't be exceptional, what was the point?

There are no miracles here, just momentum.

I suspected you had a spark in you, but never dreamed it would be such an inferno!

The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.

And he knows it's not just a threat-he'll do it. Today, he'll hit a grand slam if he has to.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.

unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.