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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• 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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• 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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• 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 seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

  Robert Morgan

  Father, Personality, Excess

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• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

  Lucretius

  Men, Wickedness, Literature

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• Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

  Peter Jennings

  Confused, Spirituality, Interest

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• And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

  Calista Flockhart

  New York, Long, Firsts

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• Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Media, Produce

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• On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

  Jay Inslee

  Beautiful, Atmosphere, Treasure

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• Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony.

  Dick Schaap

  Wonderful, Muse, Alimony

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• The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

  Cynthia Weil

  Business, Different, Needs

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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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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• Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

  Glenn Close

  Men, Seductive, Genius

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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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• 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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• 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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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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• My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Character, Sacrifice, Keys

  "Soft-centred". Interview With David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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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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• Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Clouds, Heaven, Vaults

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem”, p.119

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