Best 265 quotes in «driven quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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 is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

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.

The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.

They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.

This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to look into the future with any degree of accuracy is to use theory, statements of what causes what and why. If executives have the right theories in their heads, they can very quickly interpret market developments. They can identify what matters and why, and act accordingly. So we suggest decision-makers should start by gaining a deep understanding of the relevant collection of theories, and then be alert for signals that indicate certain types of developments.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

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.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.

Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.