Driven Quotes · Page 13

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.

— Marge Piercy

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

— Vince McMahon

You know if you have driven well or not, but sometimes because of the car or package you simply cannot do any…

— Robert Kubica

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

— John Key

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

— Aaron Levie

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

— Thomas Moore

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

— Jonathan Miller

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the…

— Anonymous

They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many…

— Stephen L. Richards

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to…

— Nora Roberts

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state…

— Bruce Rauner

The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what's being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously…

— Dan Barber

We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the…

— Mark Zandi

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't…

— Harvey Dunn

Even then, I didn't quite know what to make of it [captain Kirk death]. I was mystified by why I was doing…

— Ronald D. Moore

Our nature is intelligent. In fact, everything is intelligent. Intelligence for me is information. Information is intelligence. And then there is information…

— Horst Rechelbacher

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true.…

— Diane Arbus

Exploitation is an abuse of power, an act of domination driven by basic insecurity. I think all hierarchies create opportunities for that.…

— Linden MacIntyre

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest…

— Franz Kafka

I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned,…

— Jim Butcher

And whatever the form of your own resurrection, you will arise, driven not by the Great Search, but by your own Great…

— Ken Wilber

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever…

— Stephen King

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

— Herbert Hoover

I don't think I'm ruthless, but I'm very driven, irritatingly so.

— Deborah Meaden

There's nothing wrong with being driven. And there's nothing wrong with putting yourself first to reach your goals.

— Shonda Rhimes

Anyone who still feels today that he has to lead a double life because he's gay is driven by a fear that…

— Jens Spahn

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

— Malcolm D. Lee

23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.

— Anne Wojcicki

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

— Paul Newman

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

— Vitor Belfort

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.

— Simon Sinek

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

— Laura Innes

I am often driven by necessity, rather than actually doing things like an adult.

— Greg Davies

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

— Sam Walton

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

— Amit Kalantri

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

— Barack Obama