Forging his own path has been a driving force for him.
Livingstone points out that "seeing red" is not for Red Grooms: "Anger is almost never a motivating force for him.
At one point, he wanted me to find some ninja chicks to act as a security force for him.
That protest era might have passed him by, but the punk wave that struck the high-school rebel in the late 1970s has never lost its force for him.
In The Register interview, Mr. Perry said he was not driven to run for president was not a driving force for him.
The Russians secretly handed the communists tens of thousands of Japanese POWs, to train Mao's army and create an air force for him.
He made no mention of revenge, although, I had recently learned, it was as much a motivating force for him as for any other member of the unit.
Akomfrah adds: "I always knew Stuart had an interest in jazz, but I had no idea really of the depth of that; again in conversations it became clear this was really a shaping force for him.
Anthony Sandrasagra, a former vice president and the company's chief scientific officer, put it this way: "It was his baby, and to this extent it was a driving force for him".
Murray, who was in attendance that day, rarely discusses the incident publicly, but it has been a subtle driving force for him and his tennis family, which includes his older brother, Jamie, once a leading doubles player, and their mother, a former professional player who is now Britain's Fed Cup captain.
