Driven Quotes

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

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

Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

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

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.

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

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.

I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

I want my people to be protected, strong, and not to be driven into corners until they either become killers or are killed!

The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.

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.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

I think that's another misconception, [that] our quarterbacks run all the time. Quarterbacks can help you in the run game, they complement what you do, but it's a running back-driven run game.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

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.

Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

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's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

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.

We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

...Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

The whole journey of style-driven subcultural movements is finished now in the UK. The internet kind of killed it.

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

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

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

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

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

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

I've always been a person who is driven.