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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• 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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• I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Years, Play, Age

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 2, 2005.

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• I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

  Timothy Bottoms

  Giving, People, President

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• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  Gale Norton

  Crazy, Hiking, Schedules

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• Never confuse activity with productivity.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose Driven Life, Activity, Productivity

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• My stories are character driven.

  Terry McMillan

  Character, Stories

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• We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Games, Curiosity, Usual

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• I have been driven demented in my career.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Careers, Demented, Has Beens

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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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• 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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• 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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• We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

  Francis Parkman

  Horse, Animal, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.8, VM eBooks

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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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• I like the platform to show your art and everything that goes along with that. To show your voice and hopefully find films that are more politically driven, films that maybe inspire.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Art, Moving, Voice

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

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• I've always been driven to buck the system.

  Sam Walton

  Motivation, Bucks

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• The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

  Richard P. Bland

  Country, Europe, Gdp

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• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Administration, Helping

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

  Todd Gitlin

  Desire, Moguls, Profit

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• I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

  Richard O'Brien

  Careers

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