Driven Quotes

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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

I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.

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

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

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

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only be attracted.

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

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

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.

You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.

What's in yesterday's newspaper is today's fish-and-chip paper. If it really affects my life so badly, so personally, then I would do something about it. When it's really out of order, or something possibly detrimental to my family, or I'm driven to such a level that I know that this can be picked up and repeated again, I will just write or e-mail the newspaper editor. So, in the next day's newspaper, it might say, "Tracey Emin says this is factually incorrect."

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

I’m very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do. If that turns you into a perfectionist then maybe I am.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.