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Quotes About Drives

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
~ William Graham Sumner
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.
~ William Webb
Current feminism, with its antiscience and social constructionist bias, never thinks about nature. Hence it cannot deal with sex, which begins in the body and is energized by instinctual drives.
~ Camille Paglia
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.
~ Brian Herbert
I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.
~ Black Thought
I love long drives. But for me Sangli to Mumbai is a trip that I do every month at least when I am home. I think every 15 to 20 days, I come.
~ Smriti Mandhana
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
~ Story Musgrave
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
~ Martin O'Malley
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
~ John Lahr
It's common sense. Here's a problem, here's a solution. What will it manifest to? This drives me every day.
~ Mike Lindell
I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be
~ Lori Colombo-Dunham
It is no reproach to the Freudian and Adlerian theories that they are based upon the drives; the only trouble is that they are one-sided. The kind of psychology they represent leaves out the psyche, and is suited to people who believe that they have no spiritual needs or aspirations.
~ C.G. Jung
But people who are not above the general level of consciousness have not yet discovered that it is just as pre- sumptuous and fantastic to assume that matter produces mind, that apes give rise to human beings, that from the harmonious interplay of the drives of hunger, love, and power Kant's Critique of Pure Reason should have emerged, and that all this could not possibly be other than it is.
~ C.G. Jung
Though "instincts" or "drives" can be formulated in physiological and biological terms they cannot be pinned down in that way, for they are also psychic entities which manifest themselves in a world of fantasy peculiarly their own. They
~ C.G. Jung
Our passions are ourselves.
~ Anatole France
Every move, every act, and every thought of every human being is influenced by one or more of the nine basic motives.
~ Napoleon Hill
So many instincts drive us.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Insulin creates insulin resistance. But insulin resistance also causes high insulin – a classic vicious, or self-reinforcing, cycle. Insulin drives up insulin resistance. This, in turn drives up insulin levels. The cycle keeps going around and around, one element reinforcing the other, until insulin is driven up to extremes.
~ Tim Noakes
I have begun to believe in, and even to preach, a poetry of necessity. This is a recognition not just of the necessity of poetry to our lives, but also the fact that necessity is what drives most of the poetry that matters, or the way that it matters.
~ Kevin Young
conflict reinforces our need for God, drives us to him, forces us to look at him more closely, and deepens our trust.
~ Carolyn Custis James
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~ Plato
That animal part of us, it's the most interesting part. It's everything that has to do with drives, with things we can't stop ourselves from doing, with all the spaces where we're unable to reason with ourselves. It has its dark side, but there's a luminous side, too, which is the fact that we're just another species of animal.
~ Leila Slimani
Let us enjoy the benefits of the time—but rather the benefits of their own valour and prudence, for time drives everything before it, and is able to bring with it good as well as evil, and evil as well as good.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli