Quotes About Drive

I don't like to participate at anything and not finish first.

When I grew up, the idea that I had to be the best at everything I do was put in my head by my mother. This is just how I am. I'm not just here participating.

The biggest clubs in Europe, whether they be Barcelona, Madrid, Manchester United, or Chelsea, always want to win, whatever they are participating in.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

I want to be the best in life. In all parts in life, not just basketball.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

Sometimes it doesn't feel like I'm in control but that I'm going along for the ride. And I'm a lousy passenger; I love to drive.

The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution. What about love? Where does that fit in? Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.

I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely.

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

use one or both of your pictures

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.

The most important thing to him is his drive, his purpose, his desire to give meaning to the experience of dying.

All it wants is to explode.' 'Nice to have an ambition in life, I suppose.

There is no such thing as motivation in my world. I am not motivated to do what I do. As an artist, I am driven, I am compelled, I am thrust forward by a force so rooted inside me, so convincing, that it seems futile to try to explain it. Although it has a name: passion.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.