Driven Quotes · Page 19

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

— Alan Watts

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

— Anonymous

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

— Hillary Clinton

“The road to success is longer than you'd like, but shorter than you imagine.”

— Tim Fargo

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

— Steve Ballmer

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

— Sigourney Weaver

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

— Lord Acton

Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed…

— Anonymous

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our gains in…

— Donald Trump

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that…

— Julianne Moore

Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power…

— Jean Houston

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there…

— Nelson A. Miles

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and…

— Lars Feld

Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can... I…

— Kelly Slater

I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of…

— Anne Waldman

You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate…

— Evan Bayh

In my songs there's a lot of intimate, personality - driven, sweet singing, and that's the kind I actually love the most,…

— Idina Menzel

I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the…

— David F. Wells

For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation…

— Marilyn Manson

Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your…

— Lord Byron

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one…

— William Faulkner

A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want…

— C. S. Lewis

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

— Freeman Dyson

I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

— Lee Child

We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.

— Bob Ehrlich

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

— Timothy Keller

They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.

— George Andrews

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

— Bob Goff

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

— Albert Camus

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

— Plato

I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of…

— Kathleen McGowan

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

— Cornel West

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

— Ted Dekker

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

— Stacy Keibler

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.

— David Eagleman

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

— Dawn Fraser

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the…

— Frank Lampard

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

— Steve Buscemi