Inherent Drive Quotes

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

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.

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.

The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.