Driven Quotes

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

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.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

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.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

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

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

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.

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

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

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.

I've never been driven by box office.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline.

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

The bottom line is that you will not lose fat effectively with exercise-driven weight-loss efforts unless your eating habits moderate insulin production.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.