Driven Quotes · Page 19

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

— Robert Burns

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it…

— Dean Koontz

I can tell you what I'm driven by. I'm driven by what's in Israel's interest.

— Benny Gantz

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

— Barbara Hambly

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

— Kevin Spacey

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

— David Crosby

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that…

— Jennifer Lopez

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

— Robert L. Bradley, Jr

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single,…

— Paul Weller

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to…

— Roselee Goldberg

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion…

— Kary Mullis

The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality…

— Scott Kahn

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't…

— Eric Clapton

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like…

— Mickey Rourke

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There…

— Noam Chomsky

I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its…

— Richard Branson

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who…

— Gary Taubes

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is…

— Karl Popper

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I…

— William Faulkner

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're…

— Geoff Johns

The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is…

— James Alison

Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain…

— William Glasser

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

— Joni Mitchell

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

— Alicia Keys

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

— Richard Whately

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion.

— Robert Pape

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

— David Shields

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

— Judy Woodruff

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

— Louis Farrakhan

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

— Robert Genn

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

— Edward R. Murrow

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

— Liam Neeson

I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

— Anna Silk

I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just…

— Usain Bolt

It's very rare that you get a group of people who are all passionate and driven and all get along.

— Kelly Blatz

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

— Craig Ferguson

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

— Tori Amos

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story…

— Tom Hanks