Francis Crick Quotes

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind of disinterested, kind of uninvolved, and slowly you begin to become interested?

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Determination. No matter what field you're in, determination will surely get you to the top.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Once you want something, everything changes.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.