Quotes About Drive

You gotta be able to take criticism if you want to be anything close to great. Even if it's not true. You use that as an advantage for yourself. You can use that negative energy and turn that into an energy that drives you to be something more than you thought you could be. That's one thing I did.

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

There are a lot of people who came out of adverse situations and made it. Use it as motivation. Use it to drive you.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

On climate and clean energy, government sets the international framework, and the private sector uses that framework to do what it does best: innovate, create, and drive global progress.

Utah is amazing, it's incredible because it's so big. There are so many places to drive. There are curves, straight bits; it's like Road Runner country, frankly.

Ayrton was our toughest rival. He would leave no stone unturned to get the utmost out of his car and his team.

I am utterly ambitious. I'm ambitious for the sake of being so, too.

From the age of 6 to 33, I was utterly driven and single-minded.

We see families making a vacation out of a NASCAR event. The average drive is 200 miles so they're often going to spend a few days with us.

I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jackhammer.

I don't take vacations.

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

She comes from fighters—her mom can drive a stick shift, smoke a cigarette, drink a soda, put on mascara, and deliver a smack to every member of the family without taking her eyes off the highway.

Without passion, there is little enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, profits are few and far between.

When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist.

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

I am an ambitious writer – I don't see the point of being anything, no, not anything at all, if you have no ambition for it.

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.