Quotes About Drive

I feel like I would eat the world raw.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

So, what counts is that you think this is the best choice. Once you've decided that, you should chase it down with everything you've got.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Malcolm Folley

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

I am ready to make plenty of sacrifices to reach my goals, and no one's going to stop me.

For example, fatigue produces an increase in adrenaline concentrations. That is, when we are tired, our body chemically responds with a burst of adrenaline to give us more drive or energy.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

If there is a will there is an A.

John Sandford

Anything worth doing is worth doing at a fevered pitch.

We all have passions.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

He leaned his flail against the steps. 'That's to drive the mice out,' he said. 'I'll bet they're fat. I'll bet they don't know what's going to happen to them today.' 'No, nor you either,' Billy remarked philosophically, 'nor me, nor anyone.

Where there is little danger, there seems to be little stimulation. Perhaps the pattern of struggle is so deeply imprinted in the genes of all life conceived in this benevolently hostile planet that the removal of obstacles automatically atrophies a survival drive.

You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots?

I can do anything when my will is clean and straight. Anything.

The great drive of our people stems from insecurity. It is often considered that the violent interest in little games, the mental rat-mazes of contract bridge, and the purposeful strinking of little white balls with sticks, comes from an inner sterility. But more likely it comes from an inner complication. Boredom arises not so often from too little to think about, as from too much.

I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.