Quotes with drive

Quotes 61 till 80 of 109.

  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Peter Ackroyd Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
    The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Francis Bacon People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barry Eisler Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bertrand Russell Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Gray Scott Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
    Gray Scott
    American futurologist
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  • Betty Wright Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Denis Waitley Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Britney Spears That driving incident, I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I drive. We're country.
    MSNBC interview (2006)
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Magee The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Cary Fowler The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • George Santayana The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Earl Nightingale The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Roger Bannister The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Robert Frost The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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