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 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 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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• The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

  Russell Crowe

  Art, Motivation, People

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• Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Procrastination, Simple

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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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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• I'm as pure as the driven slush.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Pure, Slush

  Quoted in Saturday Evening Post, 12 Apr. 1947

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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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• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

  Edward de Bono

  Marriage, Intelligent, Thinking

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

  Vince McMahon

  Today, Clue, Knows

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

  Hyman Rickover

  Life, Motivational, Patience

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• I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

  Barbra Streisand

  Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Patience, Work

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• I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

  Lord Acton

  Beautiful, Funny Inspirational, Business

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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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• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Character, Passionate Desire, Justice

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• We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

  William Perry

  War, Technology, Age

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• You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

  Julie Nixon Eisenhower

  Running, Ideas, Office

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• I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

  Richard O'Brien

  Fame

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• I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

  Teena Marie

  Kids, Guitar, Play

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• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Song, Jobs, Goal

  "Farewell, Sarajevo", www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Actresses

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• From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

  Jean M. Auel

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

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• My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Character, Plot

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