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Quotes About Drives

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
~ Beryl Bender Birch
It's like one obsession propels another that propels another.
~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Our passions are ourselves.
~ Anatole France
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
Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data.
~ Howard Lutnick
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.
~ Adam Gopnik
There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't.
~ Adam Gopnik
Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits.
~ Carl Jung
For Maslow, motivation is closely tied to the idea of needs, which cause people to have drives, which in turn result in motivation. A need once satisfied stops being a need and therefore stops being a source of motivation. Simply put, if we are to create and maintain a high degree of motivation, we must keep some needs unsatisfied at all times.
~ Andrew S. Grove
A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
~ Chellie Pingree
In the end, we can only explain how he rationalized his behavior to himself and others; given the absence of revelatory letters or diaries, we can say little about the unconscious drives that led him to do this or the mental strains it might have caused.
~ Ron Chernow
Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.
~ Herbert Marcuse
The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
~ Albert Einstein
The aesthetic education offers a "subjective" transformation of each person's private war of conflicting drives into a knack for making beautiful public peace offerings.
~ Doris Sommer
Human beings behaved the way they behaved, decided the way they decided, driven by an amalgam of genes and impulses and evolution and instincts and drives and mysterious unconscious controllers that fooled the conscience into believing it was in charge.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.
~ Ashley Greene
We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.
~ Allan Holdsworth
I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.
~ Alexei Navalny
My mom marched into the reservation tent and reserved a Model X for herself. She drives a Jeep; she has four grandchildren. She didn't ask my dad. She just went ahead and did it.
~ Franz von Holzhausen
Because it's anger that drives us and delivers us. It's not any kind of love either-love for the underdog or the victim, or whatever you want to call them. Some litigators like to claim that. The losers.
~ Russell Banks
Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..." -Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
~ Dylan Thomas
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer
~ Dylan Thomas