Top 100 Quotes About Drives
#1. Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and grace.
Bethann Hardison
#2. Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
Cindy Sherman
#3. I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.
Jackie Mason
#4. This - he gestured impatiently at himself - is just a fucking shell. You're what drives me, Eva. Can you understand that? You're my heart and soul. If something ever happened to you, it would kill me, too. Keeping you safe is goddamned self-preservation!
Sylvia Day
#5. Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What drives me is the intrinsic value.
Joshua Morrow
#6. Man's curiosity drives him to seek the answer to every question. But it's the unanswered questions that are the most exciting.
George R R Martin
#7. White men project onto the Negro the primitive drives, the archaic powers, the uncontrolled instincts that they do not want to admit in themselves, of which they are unconscious, and that they therefore designate as the corresponding qualities of other people.
C. G. Jung
#8. Collective leadership effectiveness drives business performance.
William A. Adams
#9. I will cause a boy who drives a plow to know more of the scriptures than the pope.
William Tyndale
#10. Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn't it? Or at least feels like it does.
Donald A. Norman
#11. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.
DJ Spooky
#12. Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.
Kim Harrison
#13. We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
Danny Glover
#14. Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
David Jeremiah
#15. The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
Debbie Ford
#16. It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to those fast-food joints, there to try to fill with carbohydrates the spiritual and emotional emptiness gnawing inside them.
Ron Loewinsohn
#17. As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.
Kate Christensen
#18. Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
Paula Abdul
#19. The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
Tom Robbins
#20. Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
John Grogan
#21. It drives me crazy when people know me well enough to remind me what I believe.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#22. We must care about unbelievers because God does. Love leaves no choice. The Bible says, "There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear."18 A parent will run into a burning building to save a child because their love for that child is greater than their fear.
Rick Warren
#23. The universe likes speed, focus and dedication. Whatever we put our attention on, drives miracles towards us without much efforts.
Robin Sacredfire
#24. What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#25. Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts.
Ezra Taft Benson
#26. Physiological arousal or activation drives people to talk and share. We need to get people excited or make them laugh. We need to make them angry rather than sad.
Jonah Berger
#27. The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
Dante Alighieri
#28. Yeah, but I guess sometimes it's easier to take responsibility for the dead instead of the living. The rest of us have to look after them, Harry. The living. After all, that's the responsibility that drives us.
Jo Nesbo
#29. Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
Kathleen Wynne
#30. My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
Jake Shears
#31. Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you
But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
Langston Hughes
#32. I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
Paul Newman
#33. It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.
James P. Hogan
#35. The wife drives the ship. She is the puppet master. But in order to maintain a happy home, you must let the man believe that he calls the shots.
S.L. Jennings
#36. One of the things that drives me batty is people who think they're court watchers, who say, "Oh, Clarence Thomas. You know, his clerks do all the work for him. You know, he doesn't deserve to be there, and has never done anything."
Dahlia Lithwick
#37. I believe that it is important for the artist, painter, poet, dancer, etc. to keep in mind that it is the art that drives the art world and not the other way around. Artists and other people of intelligence have the power to bring deeper content to our culture.
Thornton Willis
#38. That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.
Rebecca Goldstein
#40. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.
Hermann Hesse
#41. People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#43. If you want your fridge-freezer and your car and a nice house and asphalt on the roads and a health service, then thank the weapons business. Thank the war economy that drives us to this.
Jasper Fforde
#44. I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.
Jessica Simpson
#45. Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.
Michael Dell
#46. Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.
Jenny Shipley
#47. There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear. 1 John 4:18
Beth Moore
#48. Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
E. M. Forster
#49. Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.
John R Noe
#50. The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.
Frederick Lenz
#51. I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
Rebecca Wells
#52. Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary.
Martin Mayer
#53. In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
Darin Strauss
#54. New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.
Sarah Lafleur
#55. Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
Randy Bachman
#56. I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.
Rick Smolan
#57. If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.
William Jennings Bryan
#58. Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#59. Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
Patrick Carney
#60. Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
Kristen Stewart
#62. Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have to know how my character looks, how he walks, how he drives, how he eats.
Patrick Huard
#63. In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.
Pearl Zhu
#64. The pain of the journey should challenge you to make change, the vision of what could be drives you forward.
Tony Curl
#65. 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.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#66. It's cheaper to put an entire microprocessor in your car key, microwave, or cell phone than it is to put in discrete chips and electronic components. Thus, a new technical economy drives the design of the product.
Alan Cooper
#67. Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.
Francine Rivers
#68. The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.
Paul Collier
#69. As we open our energy channels, we can cease the process of searching for love and begin the process of becoming an actual channel for love, allowing the force that drives the growth of flowers, summer rain, autumn wind, and winter snow to flow through us at the cellular level.
Catherine Carrigan
#70. I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.
Honor Blackman
#71. 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
#72. The difference between now and when I played during my younger days is my drives are shorter and my short game is longer.
Simon Hobday
#73. Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
Edd Roush
#74. Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.
David Suzuki
#75. All he knew was that the rage was still there, eating inside him, not with the slow stealth of a cancer, but with the rapid, careless ravening of a weasel gnawing at his entrails, or the constant alimentary torment that drives on the shark to his incessant feeding until only death gives him rest.
Chet Williamson
#76. Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
Christina Baldwin
#77. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
William Shakespeare
#78. I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world.
Adeline Yen Mah
#79. I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.
Seth MacFarlane
#80. Risk is not inherent in an investment; it is always relative to the price paid. Uncertainty is not the same as risk. Indeed, when great uncertainty - such as in the fall of 2008 - drives securities prices to especially low levels, they often become less risky investments.
Seth Klarman
#82. I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.
Jacob Hashimoto
#83. When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.
Helen Fisher
#84. When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
William Kent Krueger
#85. When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
Steven Pressfield
#86. I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. It is a beautiful thought.
Veronica Roth
#87. The technologically-aided destruction of old, mechanical professions drives us to higher-functioning tasks that tap more fully into what makes us human.
Winston Damarillo
#88. Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an act that's truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.
Ariana Reines
#89. 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
#90. I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.
Elizabeth Hurley
#91. Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
#92. I hate my stomach. It's impossible to get it flat, and the area around my belly button drives me crazy.
Carmen Electra
#93. Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected but again money is not something that drives me.
Lewis Hamilton
#94. The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
Barton Gellman
#95. Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.
Matt Chandler
#96. Just as bad money drives out good, the broad, deep, inclusive renaissance mind is being driven out by the narrow, specialized, technical mind.
Dee Hock
#97. My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
Birdy
#98. God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does anybody want my money!? I mean what the fuck!?
Daniel Clowes
#99. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark Twain
#100. If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.
Bill Hybels
