Quotes About 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.

Freud said that our unconscious drives or instincts, such as sex and aggression, are blocked from our conscious mind, that civilization doesn't want us to see them. Therefore, those drives are protected by such defences as repression, denial, and sublimation.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

I think I live life really spontaneously. That drives people crazy.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

The thing that drives people more often than not is they genuinely feel that they can make a difference. So that means there are nice people in politics.

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

We all share a biology and deep drives, and what we have created -- civilization, courtesy, decency -- is a mesh that comes from those drives and also contains and tames them. Whatever feels good is not necessarily good. But what I learn is whatever is bad is not necessarily alien to me. Or to you.

It's my commitment to the nation's security, it's my commitment to the men and women in uniform that drives me. Not anything else.

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.

Class is about what one drives and where one shops and how one prays, and only secondarily about the work one does or the income one makes. What makes one a member of the noble proletariat is not work per se, but unpretentiousness, humility, and the rest of the qualities that our punditry claims to spy in the red states that voted for George W. Bush.

A kind of intellectual Gresham's Law is gathering momentum: where once the rule was "bad money drives out good," we now live in an age where misinformation pushes aside knowledge.

Los intereses de un ser humano vienen determinados, en gran medida, por sus apetitos, deseos, impulsos e instintos», dijo Braithwaite

It is not greed that drives the world but envy.

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

It is the market that drives planned obsolescence, not growth or consumerism.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

Being in meetings - that feels like work. But finding candy, being in the store - that's fun, and it drives me.

It's fun to get to play a lead character that goes all the way through and drives the storyline and makes the final discovery and catches the bad guy.

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in fact, it's one of the things that drives me to make as many horror movies as I do.