Driven Quotes - Page 22

• I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

  Samuel Dash

  Law, Justice, Pay

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• I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do

  Bruce Catton

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

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• Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live into God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other peopleWe read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

  David Seamands

  Christian, Believe, Unconditional Love

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• As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Empowering, Ego

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• There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

  Rick Warren

  Years, Generations, Purpose

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• Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

  Alfie Kohn

  Play, Risk, Trying

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We will ultimately live in a perpetual data-driven talent edition. Everything you create will be measured and tracked by others through comments, share, and likes. Your work will come up on the radar of potential employers and clients, and the data will tell them if you are worth talking to or hiring.

  Scott Belsky

  Talking, Data, Likes

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• O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being. Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Autumn, Wind, Unseen

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 1

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• I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.

  Thomas Menino

  Suicide, Suicidal, Opportunity

  "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Who Led Boston's Renaissance, Is Dead at 71" by Katharine Q. Seelye, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2014.

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Thoughtful, Men, Clouds

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• The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Wind, Snow, Wicked

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

  George Orwell

  Party, People, Progressive

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  School, Stories, Credit

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• You are never going to be driven anywhere worthwhile, but you sure as hell drive yourself to a lot of great places. It is up to you to drive yourself there.

  Bobby Knight

  Up To You, Hell, Worthwhile

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• The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

  Richard Dawkins

  Epidemics, Hysteria, Childhood

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

  Robert Breault

  Personality, Desire, Passionate

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• We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

  Jonathon Porritt

  Moving, Needs, Materialism

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• I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

  Quincy Jones

  Dream, Adventure, People

  Quincy Jones (2002). “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones”, p.266, Three Rivers Press

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• They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

  Nellie Bly

  Would Be, Faults, Prison

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

  Adolf Galland

  Three, Today, Made

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Heaven, Joy, Sorrow

  Charles Henry Mackintosh (2012). “Notes on the Pentateuch - Volume I: Genesis”, p.174, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Simple, People

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• That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Hate, Men

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