Quotes About Drive

For me, motivation is like obligation.

I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.'

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

You can be anybody you want to be as long as you're obsessed.

Obsessed people are not humorless at all.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Sometimes you don't want to abandon a project to go to another move and come back, so maybe because I have a manic obsession I stick to my idea, and I'd rather wait than do something that is not my main passion.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

I obviously love to run the ball.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have, it's only been by default.