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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
The awards or minor achievements along the way, the weekly things, hearing stuff like that makes me feel good obviously but that ain’t what drives me.
I love Sunday-morning drives. I’ll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say ‘I have low self-esteem.’ No you don’t. You’re standing on stage asking people to pay. You don’t play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what’s in your mind. You don’t have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.
Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who’s running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don’t get out of bed.
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop – it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
We lived out in the middle of nowhere – the most random places – because of my father’s work. We spent a lot of time in the car on long drives, just to get anywhere. We listened to oldies rock on the car radio, and the most-played group on oldies rock radio is the Beatles.
My job is to protect the football and score points and lead this offense on drives to score points.
Fear of failure, it’s the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.
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?
The companies that choose to list on Nasdaq are among the most innovative, risk-taking businesses in the world, and they are proof to us all that prudent risk-taking drives our economy forward.
It drives me forward knowing people are watching me and I have to swim well.
When someone has that combination of arrogance and ignorance – that drives me crazy.
Hitting coach John Mallee, he comes to the ballpark way too early for me, man. He drives me nuts.
We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking – watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
Definitely, it’s a fear of failure that drives me.
In the long run, competition makes us better… it drives innovation.
The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.
There are a billion songs that I’ve heard and said, ‘I don’t even care to have an opinion about it,’ but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ once, it’ll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.
Love to me is a space where I can be myself. And the person has to pamper me, take me out for drives and endlessly listen to my stupid talk.
I love a good suit, and when I see photographs of myself in a jacket that doesn’t fit me quite right or the sleeves are too long, it drives me insane.
I can’t sit still. It drives me up the wall.
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can’t get into our schools, that’s wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
I think our politicians are bought by the highest bidder and that until we clean up our election system, then we cannot make progress on any of the issues. That’s what drives me – we must restore our democracy.
One of the things that really drives me as an actor is to be able to to provide some kind of positive resonance with people, and every project, I hope someone takes something positive from it.
I’ve always been very attentive to detail. It’s a characteristic that drives some people crazy. But on the other hand, when people around me are sloppy, that drives me crazy.
I hate that song ‘Mr. Bojangles.’ It drives me up the wall, since it’s not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.
I’ve physically seen profiling. I’ve seen me walking up the street with my friends, and the police officers get out of their car and bust the hell out of my friends. And they can’t do anything about it, and the cop gets back in his car and drives off.
It’s just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level.
The BBC is a brilliant, infuriating, delightful cornerstone of our culture but it drives me round the twist. I will never forgive them for selling off BBC Centre. It’s probably the best studio facility in Europe, possibly the world, and it’s being sold off for flats and a luxury hotel.
You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It’s all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It’s all a part of it.
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.
I want people to know the truth. That’s what drives me. That there is truth in the world to know, and once you know it, you have a responsibility to share it.
You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you’ll get the money. Money’s the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.
I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn’t have floppy disk drives.
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.
‘Baahubali’ was a film that was never done before. Rajamouli sir was my biggest inspiration because he lives in the smallest house and drives the smallest cars, but he makes the biggest films ever. He taught me the art of analysing your own strengths, and I take inspiration from him.
I think audiences are really savvy and know when we’re doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story.
I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
The thing that I don’t like is the selfie when people turn their back to the stage. I’m playing my heart out, I put everything that I have into my performance. If someone turns their back to me like a zoo animal… that drives me absolutely bananas.
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.
Typically, we’re on the road from Friday or Saturday until Wednesday morning. Sometimes, the drives aren’t too bad. Sometimes, they’re around a hundred miles, and then sometimes, they’re right at 300, so that can be exhausting.
Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
I’m compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
People also think Christians are very passive people, and that drives me crazy as an athlete because if you watch me play and compete, I’m the furthest thing from passive that you’ll see on the baseball field. I love to compete, and I love to win.
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, ‘That can’t be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?’ And that’s the best kind of scientist because they’re filled with this self-doubt. And if I’m going to be honest, that’s who I am. And it’s what drives me.
I basically started performing for my mother, going, ‘Love me!’ What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
Definitely, as an Indian, I’m seen as an outsider, and definitely, the jeers come from that. But I enjoy it; I even encourage it. Whatever noise they make when I’m in the ring, it motivates me, drives me to do better.
Dreams of warp drives and hyperspace are just that – dreams.
The decision over Heathrow expansion exemplifies the style of policy-making that starts with capitulation to a powerful self-interested lobby, blatantly fixes a public consultation and then drives through a policy that destroys any vestiges of green credentials the government had left.
