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“You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.” quote by Elon Musk — Download Open image

“You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.”

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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if - the probable outcome is failure.

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From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

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The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects,…

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another…

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.

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I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

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I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

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When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

Alexander Suvorov

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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King, Jr

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