Intrinsic Drive Quotes

It's never been about making money.

I was never one to think about why I need to go running or go to the gym - it just came naturally to me.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that's my job as a forward.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

I’m doing this because I like it.

The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

The desire for fitness comes naturally to me.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

My goal has never been to see how many stats I can rack up.

I wasn't learning to sing because I thought I could; I was learning to sing because I knew I couldn't.

I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.