Best 265 quotes in «driven quotes» category

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

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

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.

I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.

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.

I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

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.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

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.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.