Quotes with drives

  • Tower Records is like a temple to me. I'll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.
  • Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
  • Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
  • Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
  • My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Einstein A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Albert Camus Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Walter Benjamin Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Auberon Herbert Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bonnie Bassler Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Bill Gross Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Martin Luther I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
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  • Benjamin Franklin If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anish Kapoor It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Adam Arkin It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Victor Hugo Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Billie Jean King Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Catton Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Earl Wilson Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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