Driven Quotes · Page 14

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit.

— Confucius

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

— Eckhart Tolle

Being some country lad from the banks of the River Boyne, I never wanted to be wealthy. I was driven by artistic…

— Pierce Brosnan

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

— Alec Baldwin

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

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Kehinde Wiley

Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Cassandra Clare

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question,…

— Kathy Acker

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize…

— Edward Dahlberg

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate…

— Florence King

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm…

— Lucy Walker

“Those who suicided were not weak, neither were they stupid. They were solely driven by pain. They were tough people who could…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea…

— Richard Powers

[ This Is Us] is a character-driven dramedy, in which you will laugh. You may have to pull out your tissue box…

— Sterling K. Brown

A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his…

— Genghis Khan

If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually…

— Richard Branson

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So…

— Arthur Plotnik

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor,…

— Adam Smith

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,…

— Don DeLillo

Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

We make movies about remarkable people like President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in "The Island President" and Al Gore in the…

— Jon Shenk

I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative.…

— Ann Druyan

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

— Camille Paglia

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

— Konrad Lorenz

I'm driven by music. It's in my blood, and I've never been able to stay away from it for too long.

— Tommy Lee

“Having accessible options restricts us from utilizing what we have exhaustively”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

— Tom Kenny

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

— Jean M. Auel

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

— Edward Young

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

— Selena Gomez

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

— Demi Moore

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

— Franz Kafka

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Rob James-Collier

I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

— Nadine Velazquez

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven…

— Steve Carell

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

— Gale Norton