Driven Quotes

• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  W. C. Fields

  New Year, Home, Worry

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

  Ruth Rendell

  Thinking, Want, Burden

  FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Jun 23, 2011

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• Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Liberty, Doe

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Art, Wonder

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Overcoming, Nails

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• As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Sad, Memories, Paradise

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

  Bianca Jagger

  Home, Texas, Office

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• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Wish, Cleaning

  Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”

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• This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

  Thomas Moore

  Heaven, Brain, Glimpse

  Thomas Moore (1842). “Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance”, p.90

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  Danica Patrick

  Differences, Lap, Honest

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• My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

  Kid Rock

  Rap, Rocks, Southern

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Aug 05, 2013

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• A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

  Edward Sapir

  Country, Countries Of The World, Doe

  Edward Sapir (1968). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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• 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!

  Ryan Seacrest

  Ego, Fame, Showbiz

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

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Scary, Film

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Creativity, Unique

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.61, Bantam

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• I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Thinking, Dragons

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• I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Action

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• I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Faith, Attitude

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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

  Rick Warren

  Purpose Driven Life

  Twitter post from Sep 01, 2016

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• 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

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Kids

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 01, 2012.

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• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

  Patty Duke

  New York, Insomnia, Shut Up

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.13, Bantam

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• The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Truth Is

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