Motivation Quote by Harold Bloom Download Open image ““We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.”” — Harold Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Motivation
“Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them.” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Carrots & sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose.” — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one’s own.” — Richard T. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Life is not something we can manage or control. It's something we negotiate every time the path takes a turn.” — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Rather than living our lives, we are ''lived'' by unknown and uncontrollable forces.” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“Now you," Grandma barks at him. "Yes, you, the invisible truck driver," she added, giving me a wicked grin. "Go stand next to Rose… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have a Blast; Life wont last! Make the best of the journey before it is over! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is like riding on a bus. God is the driver and I am the passenger. Have faith God knows which route to take.… — Jefroy Hanson Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image