Driven Quotes · Page 22

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

— B. C. Forbes

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

— Glenn Close

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

— Abraham Lincoln

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

— Muqtada al Sadr

“Being you is what it is all about. Nothing less and nothing more.”

— Asa Don Brown

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time…

— Hilary Duff

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

— William Hazlitt

If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish…

— Vaclav Havel

No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the…

— Bill Gates

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family…

— Yelawolf

In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation…

— Pierre Omidyar

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and…

— Victor Hugo

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that…

— Richard LaGravenese

There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into…

— Hugh Laurie

The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots…

— David Mackenzie

There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits…

— Jackie Speier

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think…

— Meryl Streep

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more…

— Paul Theroux

The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic…

— Erwin McManus

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a…

— Gary Numan

Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly…

— Michael Palin

I have to do what I'm doing at the time. That's the most important thing. You might lose some people along the…

— Paul Weller

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

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

— Chris Colfer

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

— Emmanuel Jal

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

— Andy Whitfield

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

— Anne Waldman

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

— Kurt Sutter

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.

— William Butler Yeats

I've driven in rush hour a lot and it makes me not want to drive.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

— Maria Edgeworth

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male…

— Stephen Tobolowsky

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

— William Glasser

Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.

— Yuri Milner

Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.

— Samuel Daniel