Driven Quotes
1156 quotes by 1004 authors
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Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there…
— Jeanne Moreau
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If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not…
— Vaclav Havel
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I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight…
— Tanith Lee
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I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are…
— Moshe Safdie
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If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then…
— Chanakya
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When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists…
— Anurag Kashyap
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Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
— Robert Genn
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The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it…
— Wayne Thiebaud
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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
— Will Rogers
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We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before…
— Steve Jobs
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People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven…
— Brigham Young
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. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of…
— Orson Welles
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The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems…
— Shantideva
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Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.
— Jason Ellis
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On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors…
— Dolph Lundgren
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I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They…
— Dolph Lundgren
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