Driven Quotes · Page 18

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

— John Lennon

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

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

— Ted Cruz

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

— Doug Liman

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

— Mark Pellegrino

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

— Wally Lamb

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car…

— Kevin O'Leary

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how…

— Anonymous

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of…

— J. G. Ballard

We are driven by the results of the Big Bang, billions of years ago, which eventually produced life, which eventually produced human…

— James Hillman

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who are the moneylenders? They are those who were driven out of the Temple by Christ Himself 2000 years ago. They are…

— Julius Streicher

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will…

— Paul Gillmor

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm a girl, so every day I have a different opinion about or a different feeling about something that inspires me, but…

— April Rose

Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the…

— Hermann Hesse

The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers…

— John Quincy Adams

This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,…

— Tara Brach

A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for…

— Michael C. McMillen

I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know.…

— Claudia Rankine

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

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.

— Bob Dylan

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

— Billy Gibbons

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

— Morgan Fairchild

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

— Brad Feld

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

— Douglas Rushkoff

In real life, I don't love working out, but I've been driven to it.

— Joanna Going

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

— Geoff Johns

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.

— Tammara Webber

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

— W. C. Fields

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven…

— Mitt Romney

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

— Tori Amos

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

— Sofia Coppola

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

— Hyman Rickover