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Quotes About Drive

L.A.'s new Central Receiving Hospital is a two-story brick building at 500 Loma Drive. I trotted up
~ Richard S. Prather
hilltop home on Durand Drive behind Hollywood
~ Richard S. Prather
He knows that there is something wrong, forbidden in what he is about to do, but he cannot help himself, for he is a fanatic. He is driven by a dark desire. To see, to feel, to discover is all. His is a passion, not a romance.
~ Richard Selzer
Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like "I deserved a better life than this.
~ Richard Siken
Then I walked out to my truck and was gone by the time I started the engine.
~ Richard Wagamese
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...
~ Richard Wright
Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.'' ''Only one, huh?'' I spoke lightly, but his words had thrilled me. He'd meant what he said about thinking those were wonderful traits, and feeling his pride in me meant more than anything just then.
~ Richelle Mead
This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.
~ Richelle Mead
It doesn't matter what it is. Start with something, and go from there. Go until you're unstoppable.
~ Richelle Mead
Are you saying I have a short attention span?" "Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.
~ Richelle Mead
Passion drives perfection. The highest achievers in any field are those who do it because of passion, not duty or profit.
~ Rick Warren
And pushed the button.
~ Ridley Pearson
It's not about getting rid of desire. It's about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. What are you channeling your energies into? If they don't go into a few, select, disciplined pursuits that you are passionate about and are willing to give your life to, then they'll dissipate into all sorts of urges and cravings that won't even begin to bring joy that the one thing could.
~ Rob Bell
This is a pattern. Something bonded with something like it, and that introduced something new, something more complex, something that previously didn't exist. Something the universe had never seen before. All because of a drive. A drive to bond, to unite, to come together. Where does this drive come from? It comes from within. This
~ Rob Bell
twenty-three-old
~ Robert A. Caro
Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary...because it hurts less to write than it does not to write.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Stop the whining and get to work!
~ Robert B. Parker
To say that Susan shopped would be like saying that sharks eat. It was disciplined frenzy. While
~ Robert B. Parker
Man's reach much exceed his grasp, or what is heaven for?
~ Robert Browning
And what mostly made that feller a loser was he didn't want nuthin' bad enough.
~ Robert Coover
Tyson looked miserable as we drove to The Carl, and neither of us said much. We each had our reasons, but our reasons were different.
~ Robert Crais
Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love. And don't stop until you get what you love.
~ Robert Frost