Best 265 quotes in «driven quotes» category

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.

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.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.

I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply.

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.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

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.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

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.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

I'm always going to be looking for something artistically or whatever. I think that's part of being driven, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm unhappy.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

I'm always driven by something. It doesn't matter what it is, it could be the smallest task or something huge.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.

I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

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.

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.

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.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

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.

In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.

Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

I spend a lot of time on Twitter, and it's a very interesting place. People are so driven to aggression. To me it's a funny thing. I grew up in an aggressive family, so I'm not at all intimidated by being verbally abused. I have no fear with words.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.