Top 100 Quotes About Driven
#1. Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.
Saul Bellow
#2. Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
Shah Rukh Khan
#3. As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.
Wayne Dyer
#4. Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
Ahmed Zewail
#5. Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.
L'Wren Scott
#6. The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
Vince Cable
#7. I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
Adam McKay
#8. I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.
L. Neil Smith
#9. Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
Mitt Romney
#10. In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.
E. O. Wilson
#11. Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond
that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.
Tanith Lee
#12. The advertising profession transformed the capitalist model of buyers making
rational choices in a free market into a consumerist model where the buyer was
driven by irrational emotions associated with particular brand names and/or
products.
Joel Spring
#13. I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Abraham Lincoln
#14. Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
Bernard Ebbers
#15. A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.
Robert L. Bradley Jr.
#16. If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B.C. Forbes
#17. No, when I refer to "creative living," I am speaking more broadly. I'm talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. One
Elizabeth Gilbert
#18. We are a species driven by innovation and creativity. The world is full of information and any number of things to learn and discover at any given time, so if you are bored, it's your choice. As such, you're not allowed to complain.
Ginger Voight
#19. While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
Terence
#20. Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
Tennessee Williams
#21. It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
Harmony Korine
#22. The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.
Virginia Postrel
#23. I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
Caleb Cushing
#24. The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.
George Saunders
#25. Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
Rumi
#27. A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#28. Millions of shining lights, silver nails driven into a dome of dark blue velvet . . .
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#30. I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.
Condola Rashad
#31. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#32. It's just ... You know. You drive me crazy. You've always driven me crazy."
I think my mind is now all over the floor.
"And you don't think it might have been a good idea to maybe tell me this? I've spent the last ten years pining for you like an idiot, you idiot.
Charlotte Stein
#33. I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.
Kyle Shewfelt
#34. We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.
Seneca The Younger
#35. With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.
Ted Nugent
#36. The multiverse model offers an elegantly postmodern solution to character stasis in a market-driven serial publishing system which privileges constancy over major change.
Jose Alaniz
#37. It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.
David Halberstam
#38. I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.
Julianne Moore
#39. My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
Graham Joyce
#40. This book is for those who would rather be haunted and driven mad than left behind.
Megan Hart
#41. We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.
Calvin Miller
#42. A grief-stricken man is driven to defy the gods.
Clive Cussler
#43. Here we part from the "nature mystics," the mystic poets, and all who shared in and were contented with the illuminated vision of reality. Those who go on are the great and strong spirits, who do not seek to know, but are driven to be.
Evelyn Underhill
#44. The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#45. You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.
Charles R. Swindoll
#46. I don't really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It's become very franchise driven and superhero driven.
Peter Jackson
#47. I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
John Irving
#48. Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
Warren Bennis
#49. A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.
Nina Easton
#50. In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
Rick Santelli
#51. 'Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller.
Kenneth Branagh
#52. Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009]
Cormac McCarthy
#53. Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents.
Mel Martinez
#54. Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it ... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!
Max Elliott Slade
#55. I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.
John Key
#56. Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
Ramez Naam
#57. Playing live was always definitely a lot more fun. You picture it: working alone in the studio eight or 10 hours a day with nobody else there, being frustrated and driven crazy by all of the things that you have to deal with, vs. thousands of people screaming and singing along with you playing.
Tom Scholz
#58. After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.
Stephen Stills
#59. Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
Bill Hybels
#60. I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.
Nick Jonas
#61. I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.
Bernard Haisch
#62. I want a guy who wants to curl up on a Friday night and watch Netflix. He can even pick the show. I mean, ideally, it's serialized and female-driven,
Mindy Kaling
#63. Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
Andre Geim
#64. Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
Rei Kawakubo
#65. My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
Gary Hume
#66. I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.
Billy Collins
#67. Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.
Peter Diamandis
#68. The driven, passionate ones give their best on ordinary days and that is why they are extraordinary.
Twinkle Khanna
#69. If I should never see him again - she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she
Anya Seton
#70. tears are a silent passion for suffering-
i found ma self baffeld by hers-
the way they trickled in the presence if moonlight,
driven by the humans didnt undrstand her...
Christopher Poindexter
#71. I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.
Louis Tomlinson
#72. The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
#73. The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner
#74. The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#75. Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.
Frank Crane
#76. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
Robert Gottlieb
#77. Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.
Albert Jay Nock
#78. Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.
Nate Silver
#79. All these years you have driven us from this world with your runed blades. Now we have bodies that your weapons will not work on, and this world will be ours. Rage
Cassandra Clare
#80. If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us.
Alexander Suvorov
#81. She felt something deeper and richer with Dave, something driven by years and commitment, but maybe that was just fancy talk. That sort of electricity - had she ever felt it with her husband? Was it fair to even compare or think such things? Were such thoughts alone a betrayal? You
Harlan Coben
#82. It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest.
Stephen King
#83. I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.
Alastair Campbell
#84. If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
Plato
#85. Afterward it was hard to be sure exactly when the sublime light had dazzled their minds and driven them mad, since they went insane with such calm and dignity that nobody noticed.
Frances Hardinge
#86. Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.
Jon Meacham
#87. I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.
Jim DeMint
#88. All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.
Mahavira
#89. This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas Moore
#90. I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
#91. A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.
Tim Armstrong
#92. Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.
Mariana Mazzucato
#93. The Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#94. Plot might seem to be a matter of choice. It is not. The particular plot is something the novelist is driven to: it is what is left after the whittling-away of alternatives.' Elizabeth Bowen opened her Notes on Writing a Novel (1945, reprinted in Collected Impressions, Longmans, Green & Co.,
Elizabeth Bowen
#95. Theatre is about the collective imagination ... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.
Simon McBurney
#96. The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.
Michael Lewis
#97. Reactionary 'sheeple' are often more attractive than, ego-driven, nihilistic, phoney,love-fearing,master-race-belief-system-victim-collectors. Fine lines there
Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
#98. I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.
Tyler Oakley
#99. The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.
Jack W. Szostak
#100. For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.
Doug Liman
