Driven Quotes

NASA is developing space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. And just like New York taxis, they're all going to be driven by aliens.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

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

We're either going to be driven to a whole new sense of radical interdependence where we are, in the Bible's words, our neighbor's keeper, or destroy ourselves.

My agent once said, 'You're not very driven.' And it's true. I'm not the type to ring up and go, 'Get me this part!'

Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult.

When I watch a singer perform, or an athlete, I can't help but be driven to be the best I can be at my craft.

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

We need to repeal and replace Obamacare. It is the largest tax in U.S. history, has proven to be a job-killer, and has driven up the cost of healthcare.

Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

I believe that Europe without Britain at the heart will be less reform-driven, less open, less international Europe.

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

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.

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

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

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

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

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

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.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

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

It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

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

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

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

I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

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

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

We try to effectively free ourselves up to be creative, to think about what might be possible, to come up with truly innovative ways to enact our values-driven positions.