quotes about Driven
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I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.
-- Adolf Galland -
I am never driven. Every film Ive made has been an assignment.
-- Alain Resnais -
I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.
-- Alastair Campbell -
I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
-- Alec Baldwin -
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Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
-- Alex Steffen -
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
-- Alex WinterSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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If we had not driven them into hell, hell would have swallowed us.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.
-- Alison Croggon -
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
-- Amy Adams -
I’m very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do. If that turns you into a perfectionist then maybe I am.
-- Anna Wintour -
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
-- Aristotle -
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
-- B. C. Forbes -
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Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.
-- Barbara Hambly -
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.
-- Betsy Prioleau -
I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
-- Bill Ayers -
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
-- Billy Gibbons -
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.
-- Bob Goff -
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You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.
-- Bobby Knight -
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.
-- Brian Eno -
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
-- Bruno Mars -
Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
-- Bud AbbottSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.
-- Charlaine Harris -
We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
-- Chiang Kai-shek -
I'm not the greediest person. Of course, I work in a business where that's all relative and there's a lot of money to be made. I think I'm satisfied making as much as I have and I don't feel particularly driven to have more.
-- Chloe SevignySource : Source: www.elle.com
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And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.
-- Claire Danes -
I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.
-- Clay GuidaSource : "UFC on FX 4: Clay Guida Exclusive on 'The Big Lebowski,' Gray Maynard, and More". Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 18, 2012.
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Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
-- David Crosby -
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I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
-- Debbie Harry -
Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.
-- Demi Moore -
I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.
-- Dennis Miller -
You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.
-- Dick Cheney -
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Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.
-- Dick Schaap -
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
-- Edward R. Murrow -
I've always been a person who is driven.
-- Evelyn LauderSource : "AT WORK WITH: Evelyn Lauder; From Pink Lipstick To Pink Ribbons" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1995.
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I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
-- Frank Gehry -
Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
-- Gary Clark, Jr. -
Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.
-- George W. Bush -
It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.
-- Gordon Bethune -
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I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.
-- Harry Styles -
I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.
-- Hilary Duff -
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
-- Iris Chang -
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
-- Jay Samit -
I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.
-- Jenna JamesonSource : "Interview: Jenna Jameson gallery". www.askmen.com.
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I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.
-- Jo Stafford -
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For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.
-- John Dryden -
My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'
-- Johnny Vegas -
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.
-- Jon Krakauer -
I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.
-- Judd Apatow -
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I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, 'Are you Kate Winslet?'. And I said, 'Well, yes. I am actually'. And she said, 'And you're getting the tube?' And I said, 'Yes'. And she said, 'Don't you have a big car that drives you around?' And I said, 'No'. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous.
-- Kate Winslet -
Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.
-- Keith FerrazziSource : Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.17, Crown Business
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Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better.
-- Kelly SlaterSource : "An Interview With Kelly Slater!". Intensity Magazine Interview, www.bodybuilding.com. July 29, 2004.
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I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.
-- Kevin McCloud -
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
-- Kofi Annan -
Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.
-- Konosuke Matsushita -
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
-- Larry EllisonSource : "Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall". www.evancarmichael.com.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
-- Larry Ellison -
A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.
-- Lee Hammond -
Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.
-- Leon M. Lederman -
Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.
-- Lev L. Spiro -
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Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
I have been driven demented in my career.
-- Lord Mountbatten -
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 -
I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
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It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.
-- Margaret Campbell Barnes -
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people...
-- Mary McCarthySource : Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.15, Random House
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We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous
-- Menzies Campbell -
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One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.
-- Mercedes Lackey -
I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.
-- Michael MustoSource : "An Interview With The Marvelous Michael Musto". Broadway World Interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.
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God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.
-- Muqtada al Sadr -
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
-- Nikola Tesla -
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Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
-- Noah Baumbach -
Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
-- Nora Waln -
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
-- Paul Newman -
It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.
-- Paul Newman -
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I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.
-- Paul Schrader -
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
-- Peter Jennings -
We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.
-- R. D. Laing -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
-- Randy Schekman -
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At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
-- Richard MacDonald -
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
-- Richard WhatelySource : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251
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I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
-- Ricky PontingSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
-- Ringo Starr -
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If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.
-- Rob James-CollierSource : "You don't have to be posh to be an actor (but it certainly helps)" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2012.
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The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.
-- Robert PapeSource : "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism". Interview with Scott McConnell, www.globalpolicy.org. July 18, 2005.
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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
-- Ruth RendellSource : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Jun 23, 2011
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Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
-- Ryan Seacrest -
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Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.
-- Samuel Daniel -
I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.
-- Sharon Lawrence -
I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.
-- Shawn Ryan -