The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Constant development is the law of life and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
Young children were sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.
Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.
In the end my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads and the boss drives.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy no matter where on the political spectrum they begin and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job the better you become. If you lose your drive your enthusiasm your imagination that experience is no good.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time he's very kind to people.
With humor it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me talking about me everywhere I went.
The show doesn't drive home a lesson but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33 000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
Because of my parents' love of democracy we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
By the time you get dressed drive out there play 18 holes and come home you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.