Quotes About Drive

I can't do anything else but my

The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

To him who is determined it remains only to act.

Certain of himself, confident of what he could make in his mind, going through life as if he had always a following wind.

Martin Luther claimed that he "never did anything well until his wrath was excited, and then he could do anything well.

Life without passion is a poor thing.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.

Competition is my life; winning is my only goal

But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you've set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By

Just do it.

Purpose isn't about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal. Successful cultures do this by relentlessly seeking ways to tell and retell their story. To do this, they build what we'll call high-purpose environments.

Successful groups are attuned to the same truth as the starlings: Purpose isn't about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal. Successful cultures do this by relentlessly seeking ways to tell and retell their story. To do this, they build what we'll call high-purpose environments.

We usually think of passion as an inner quality. But the more I visited hotbeds, the more I saw it as something that came first from the outside world. In the hotbeds the right butterfly wingflap was causing talent hurricanes. "I

Purpose isn't about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal.

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

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

The science shows that the secret to high performance isn't our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive—our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to make a contribution.

Motivation 1.0 presumed that humans were biological creatures, struggling to obtain our basic needs for food, security and sex. Motivation 2.0 presumed that humans also responded to rewards and punishments. That worked fine for routine tasks but incompatible with how we organize what we do, how we think about what we do, and how we do what we do. We need an upgrade. Motivation 3.0, the upgrade we now need, presumes that humans also have a drive to learn, to create, and to better the world.