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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Progress, Evolution, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

  Alex Winter

  Ideas, Certain, Theme

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

  Erica Jong

  Cynical, Morality, Monogamy

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.110, Penguin

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• A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Cocky

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• Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

  Bud Abbott

  Car, Wells, Stills

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

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• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Faithful, Excess

  "Stranger in the Village", Harper's, October 1953.

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• I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

  Caleb Cushing

  Slavery, Form, Protest

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• I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

  Mike Lowry

  Thinking, World, Investment

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

  Edward de Bono

  Car, Way, Highly Intelligent

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• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Moving, Rivers, Together

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  Zach Braff

  Worry, Insecurity, Conversation

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• Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Sheep, Flocks

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251

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• We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Games, Matter, Sticks

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

  Iris Chang

  Media, Economic, Force

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• When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

  Michael Pitt

  Giving, Ego, Actors

  "Q&A with 'Last Days' star Michael Pitt". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.tailslate.net. July 21, 2005.

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• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Age, Due Process Of Law

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Men, Due Process Of Law, Remember

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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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• I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

  Courtney Love

  Love, Reason, Knows

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