Driven Quotes · Page 10

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

— William Hazlitt

Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

— Todd Gitlin

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

— Roger Ascham

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

— Steve Jobs

Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

— Samuel Daniel

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

— Bill Ayers

Healthcare should be about market driven solutions, not government mandates.

— Joni Ernst

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a…

— George Orwell

“There are two types of people in this world- those who pull out of bed each morning at the thought of breakfast…

— Roopleen

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can…

— Tony Robbins

Our criminal institutions are full of creeps like you who do wrong things, and many of them were driven to these crimes…

— Frank Zappa

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And…

— Emily Watson

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that…

— Mohnish Pabrai

As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of…

— John Battelle

I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven…

— Maggie Stiefvater

We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen…

— T. D. Jakes

My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on…

— Geoff Johns

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The other theory of the case - and it's not just one that people opposed to him politically believe, but also people…

— Chris Hayes

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings,…

— Anonymous

What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we…

— Stephen A. Diamond

Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience…

— William Cobbett

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

— Moliere

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

— Seth Godin

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

— Fred Wilson

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

— Jim Lynch

I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.

— Sebastian Coe

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.

— Janusz Kaminski

I think that smart is sexy, and driven is sexy, and passion is sexy, and if you're passionate about math, so be…

— Jonathan Slavin

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

— Henri Matisse

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

— Bill Shorten

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

— Terry Pratchett

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

— Lewis Goldberg

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

— Kristin Davis

I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.

— Kate Brown

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel…

— Marc Maron

Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.

— Abbi Jacobson