Driven Quotes - Page 9

• Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Real, Character, Support

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said. "It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me." "Don't worry," I said. "I do.

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.131, Penguin

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• If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Life, Molecules

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1959.

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• This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die.

  Jon Krakauer

  Order, Succeed, Form

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Beer, Eight

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Fate, Men

  "The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

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• If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Military, War, Hell

  "The Book of Military Quotations" by Peter G. Tsoura, (p. 138), 1998.

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• Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

  H. G. Wells

  Adventure, Men, Moon

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.2172, e-artnow

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• The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Philosophy, Happy Life

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1997). “Martin Luther's Easter Book”, p.82, Augsburg Books

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• Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Heart, Hands, America

  "Hungry Hearts and Other Stories" by Anzia Yezierska, ("How I Found America", pt. 3), 1920.

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• Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of felt need. If I say, "I ought to pray," I will soon run out of motivation and quit; the flesh is too strong. I have to be driven to pray.

  Jim Cymbala

  Running, Strong, Prayer

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

  Andy Grove

  Thinking, Technology, Knowing

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Brother, Ambition

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Drinking, Hysteria

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.

  Robin Sharma

  Helping Others, Desire, Genius

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.14, Jaico Publishing House

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• When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

  Edith Hamilton

  Strong, Men, Advice

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Grateful, Forever, Good Man

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• Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hope, Men, Expectations

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.47, Routledge

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• Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  Samuel Adams

  Happiness, Country, Religious

  "American Independence". Speech to the State House in Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.

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

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Admiration, Conceit

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

  Susan Sontag

  Travel, Fun, Vacation

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Crazy, Smell, Mad

  "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television, 1996.

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