Driven Quotes · Page 13

The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

— Najib Razak

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

— Simon Sinek

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

— Doug Liman

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

— Ted Cruz

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from…

— Avicenna

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

— Allison Silverman

The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if…

— John Lennon

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

— Stonewall Jackson

Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

— Bruce Jenner

Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around…

— David Filo

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose…

— Nia Vardalos

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay…

— Cynthia Ozick

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep…

— Emory Cohen

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that…

— Alex Ferguson

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you…

— John W. Thompson

It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of…

— Don Williams

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now…

— Anonymous

Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs…

— Richard Sherman

I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character…

— Dylan Clark

Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States…

— Ronald Reagan

I never take anything for granted. I think it's very cool to still get excited about things. I get as excited now…

— Victoria Beckham

terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base…

— Karan Mahajan

The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it's clear…

— Zachary Quinto

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable…

— Frank Gehry

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

— Paul J. Zak

I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

— Grant Shapps

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

— Johnny Depp

Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.

— Bhavish Aggarwal

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

— Anonymous

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold…

— William Carlos Williams

There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

— Jean M. Auel

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

— Demi Moore

I drive the same car that I've driven since I was 16. That's who I am.

— Selena Gomez

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

— Edward Young

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

— Rob James-Collier

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Franz Kafka