Top 100 Thrive On Quotes
#1. I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.
Emilia Fox
#2. GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships.
Mal Fletcher
#3. And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
Glenn Tipton
#4. I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well.
Rob Brezsny
#5. Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.
Trevor Dunn
#6. They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science.
Susan Meissner
#7. You are a rose bush left out in the wild, scraping for survival. You have fought for everything you have, and you thrive on the struggle. You're called to it. The harder things are, the better you get.
Denise Grover Swank
#8. Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.
Richard Dawkins
#9. Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
Margaret Atwood
#10. Your differences are what make you unique. They're what make you special. You have nothing in common with these ignorant retches who thrive on superstition and fear. You were meant for greatness.
Ellen Oh
#11. The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.
Angelica Hopes
#12. Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.
Dan Groat
#13. We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. I'm a theater actress and I thrive on working with other actors, and you can't be even a smidge bad, when you're acting with Charlie [Sheen]. He's just so natural, so present and so good that you have to step up to his level, or else.
Daniela Bobadilla
#15. I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson
#16. Adolescents thrive on rituals that acknowledge their growing independence and passage into adulthood.
Linda Lantieri
#17. Affirmations: "I love & respect my mind, body, spirit." & "I do what best nurtures all parts of myself." & "I thrive on wholeness." Namaste!
Jay Woodman
#18. Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas ... ?
Robert Gibbs
#19. The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.
Michael Pollan
#20. We were Dex and Perry and our relationship seemed to thrive on the universe being out of order. Either that or our relationship actually caused the world to turn upside down. It was hard to say.
Karina Halle
#21. ENFPs thrive on the excitement of not knowing what comes next. This wildly imaginative type gains energy through speculating about the future and planning what could and might come next. Consequently,
Heidi Priebe
#22. I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings ... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes ... they are idea men.
Howe Gelb
#23. I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.
Sharon Stone
#24. There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#25. Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Jared Polis
#26. I love competition. I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door.
Kellan Lutz
#27. The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
Orlando Bloom
#28. For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.
Patricia Penton Leimbach
#29. What we thrive on is hatred and violence; if we were a peaceable people we would have peace tomorrow.
Henry Miller
#30. Dean, having worked with Dad longer, was used to taking orders. More than that, he seemed to thrive on it, as if Dad had crushed the independent spirit he'd been born with.
Jeffrey J. Mariotte
#31. The pale organisms of literary heroes feeding under the author's supervision swell gradually with the reader's lifeblood; so that the genius of a writer consists in giving them the faculty to adapt themselves to that - not very appetizing - food and thrive on it, sometimes for centuries.
Vladimir Nabokov
#32. In the land of badass, you've just been trumped. If Dark-Hunters had inmates, these would be they. Known as the Dogs of War because that's what they thrive on, they're cold-blooded and intolerant. Congratulations, bud, these are your new protectors. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
#34. When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
Richard Jenkins
#35. I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.
Tom Waits
#36. Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.
Art Buchwald
#37. Because extroversion lines up so well with American values, we introverts often deprive ourselves of what we most enjoy and thrive on. So, for all of you who draw energy from inside, behind, underneath, or away from it all, welcome home.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#38. I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
Phil Jackson
#39. Unlike the women she'd known back at home, these women didn't thrive on gossip. They built each other up rather than tearing each other down.
Marie Force
#40. We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
Maya Angelou
#41. I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.
Phil Anselmo
#42. You crave chaos. You're happiest when the world is in an uproar. You thrive on madness. Even when your magic is at its best when it's the catalyst to confusion. You still can't admit this?
A.G. Howard
#43. There are many critics who think the megachurches thrive on people who enjoy dramatic Sunday services with fine music but don't wish to become very 'religious' on a day-to-day basis - that the megachurch appeal is a mile wide and an inch deep.
Rodney Stark
#44. The type of person that might thrive on Vine in a six-second clip might not be the same kind of entertainer who would shine on a 10-minute vlog on YouTube. If anything, having these different platforms gives more people a chance to creatively express themselves.
Tyler Oakley
#45. You crave chaos, you are happiest when the world is in an uproar, you thrive on madness.
A.G. Howard
#46. the enemy of security: repetition leads to patterns, and cryptanalysts thrive on patterns.
Simon Singh
#47. The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.
Pico Iyer
#48. Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.
Bonnie Baker
#49. I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.
David Neeleman
#51. We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda Meir
#52. The weak thrive on indulgence.
Dan Groat
#53. I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.
Christina Aguilera
#54. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#55. He thought for a while of Mithradates, whose system learned to thrive on poison. He cheated assassins, who made the mistake of using small doses, and was pickled, not destroyed.
Tutto fa brodo.
Saul Bellow
#56. Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.
Bill Keller
#57. I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.
Kathryn Bigelow
#58. This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'
Marissa Mayer
#59. In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance ... you thrive on that.
Bill Gates
#60. I don't thrive on control. I'm not looking for control. I think I get better results when I don't control things.
Michel Gondry
#61. I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
Bear Grylls
#62. I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is.
Joni Mitchell
#63. Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don't want to thrive on people's opinions of me.
Lupita Nyong'o
#64. If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.
Frederick Lenz
#65. My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that.
Don Ho
#66. Sometimes ... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
Robert Genn
#67. Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
#69. America was built on the can-do spirit and will continue to thrive on the can-do spirit.
Robert Mondavi
#70. I had forged her myself, out of brokenness, learning to love wildness instead of fearing it. To thrive on the exhilaration of the hunt, charging headlong into the world even when it hurt to do it.
Paula McLain
#71. Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
Abdallah II
#72. I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.
Lupita Nyong'o
#73. Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.
John Ortberg
#74. Advertising and marketing philosophies that thrive on emphasizing 'natural' differences don't stay in the realm of advertising and marketing
they spill into how we justify sexism and racism at every life stage.
Andi Zeisler
#75. a significant amount of Conventional Wisdom about healthy eating is marketing fodder that grossly distorts the fundamental truth that humans thrive on natural plant and animal foods or that relies on gimmicks to support the dogma of flawed, manipulated "research.
Mark Sisson
#76. Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)
Dean Koontz
#78. Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.
Northrop Frye
#79. I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz
#80. It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.
Stockard Channing
#81. Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!
Ngina Otiende
#82. I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.
Sheryl Crow
#83. Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.
Lundy Bancroft
#84. Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.
C.T.
#85. I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
Harold Prince
#86. Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change - it's threatening. I thrive on it.
Yvon Chouinard
#87. Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.
Khalil Gibran
#88. No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.
Paul Bowles
#89. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.
Ben Bradlee
#90. Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
Julia Bacha
#91. Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
Bryan Callen
#92. For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.
Zakk Wylde
#93. It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
Imogen Heap
#94. My kind do not spend their days at craft or art. Our deepest desire is not for the making of a thing, nor for the thing itself. Rather, we thrive on the skills of those who make. We steal that time and that power, and we turn it to our own souls, and that is how we grow.
E.K. Johnston
#95. Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.
Amartya Sen
#96. Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax
#97. My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.
Michael Loceff
#98. I am a super social person. I'm an only child, so I thrive on social settings and being around my friends because I make them my siblings. When I'm not acting or singing or working on anything, I am making new relationships with people because, to me, my friendships are very important.
Hayley Orrantia
#99. I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
#100. Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.
Sebastian Junger
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