Quotes About Drive

Demand excellence.

Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

I think the greatest demand actually comes from within, not from outside.

I'm very demanding of myself.

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

I'm a person who demands a lot from myself and always want more and to do better.

I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

You must go after the things you desire like your life depends on it, because guess what? Your life does depend on it. The life you truly want to live does.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Desire creates the power.

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

Our deep desires define us, really.

I think I'm probably a little too desperate to be successful.

In order to win in the NFL... you've got to be desperate to win a championship.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

When I first got into the sport, or first got into athletics, I always felt that sense of responsibility that I was destined for something bigger, that I was going to do something major.

I think I was born with that desire to win and attention to detail.

It's truly amazing to see where determination and drive will lead you.