Being Driven To Succeed Quotes & Sayings

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span? — Kevin Spacey

The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself. — Lindsey Stirling

Can you rejoice when others do well? Seems simple but most of the time we are so driven to succeed that when others make progress it stirs up resentment within our inner most being. What might happen in our workplace environments if we could be encouragers and supporters while pursuing our goals at the same time? — Jonah Books

The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience. — Henning Mankell

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. — Lasse Hallstrom

Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true! — George MacDonald

Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself. — Nikki Rowe

My love is building a building
around you,a frail slippery
house,a strong fragile house
(beginning at the singular beginning
of your smile)a skilful uncouth
prison, a precise clumsy
prison(building thatandthis into Thus,
Around the reckless magic of your mouth)
my love is building a magic, a discrete
tower of magic and(as i guess)
when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall
crumble the mouth-flower fleet
He'll not my tower,
laborious, casual
where the surrounded smile
hangs
breathless — E. E. Cummings

Of the autistically interior, dreaming, reading, erotic, self-sufficient child in Balthus' painting we have practically no image at all. Balthus' children are not being driven to succeed where their parents failed, or to be popular, adjusted, or a somebody. — Guy Davenport

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes. — Herta Muller

Change is uncomfortable. And heading out into unfamiliar terrain is risky. Far too many crave comfort and security. And so they lead a limited existence within the safe confines of their velvety prisons. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all. — Prince Andrew

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain. — John Madden

Your 'Ideal Parallel World' must be so grand that if you told it to 99% of your friends, they would laugh - some because they would think you were joking and some because they would think the goal impossible. — Kevin Michel

Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex! — Ronald Biggs

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small — Carlos Castaneda