Quotes About Drive

Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress.

DO more, KNOW more, THINK more, HAVE more and WANT more than your opponent.

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

If you can't write at least a paragraph on your goal then it is clearly not compelling enough. You need to either find the right reason or find the right goal.

What are you not beating down doors to do? What are you not actively taking on but would if you could?

staring at the rankings as if they could reshape them with the sheer force of their eyeballs.

We need to hire people who are hungry. They go beyond what is required. Passionate about the work they're doing. Hungry.

Hungry Only: The Bulldozer

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.

My idea had been to drive along the border and nip over whenever convenient to the Mexican side. These dozen or so crossings were a revelation to me, putting the whole border debate into perspective, giving it a human face—or rather, many faces.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.

Going after what I believe in.

There's A Force that wants you to realize your personal legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.