Best 265 quotes in «driven quotes» category

My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear

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.

One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

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.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now" - well, I'm personally driven by wanting to get out of my life the best I can achieve as a gift for those who come after me.

The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there are people out there that are trying to screw you - and we're going expose them for it.

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.

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.

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

There are a variety of ways in which a wedge is driven between the reality of the world outside, the motion of atoms, and our conception of what is there. Some of it has to do with what we're told, some of it to do with sensibilities that might be described as cultural, some of it to do with habit, some to do with heuristics we, as Homo sapiens, invoke because we cannot do otherwise - to name just a few of the impediments.

There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.

There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The same is true of the Christians.

There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.