Driven Quotes · Page 22

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

— Bill Ayers

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

— Robert Breault

A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

— Sophocles

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

— Timothy Keller

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

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

— Lord Acton

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

— Freeman Dyson

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point…

— Jerusha Hess

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to…

— George Sand

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those…

— Cornel West

Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest…

— Richard Chandler

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always…

— Jean M. Auel

“Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven…

— Lord Dunsany

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than…

— W. C. Fields

It seems that most the world is driven by the eye, right? They design cities to look great but they always sound…

— Bjork

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened…

— Alain de Botton

The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change.…

— Chris Stein

Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence…

— Helen Chenoweth-Hage

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy…

— Ibrahim Babangida

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye…

— Robin Wasserman

Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a…

— Frank Bruni

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who…

— David Carson

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life,…

— Mitt Romney

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 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

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

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

— George Andrews

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'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

— Michael Musto

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

— Kyle Parker

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

— Gary Clark, Jr

“I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of…

— Blake Mycoskie

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

— Victoria Beckham

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

— Nell Freudenberger

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

— Sigourney Weaver

... 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