Driven Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Home, People, Age

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• A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

  Sue Halpern

  Creativity, Culture, Alternatives

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• Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
  by the characters' wants and desires.

  Robert Gregory Browne

  Character, Desire, Plot

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• I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.

  Bernard Haisch

  Spiritual, Hate, Believe

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• Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to the true meaning of liberty. It is driven by economic myths, fallacies and irrational good intentions.

  Ron Paul

  Ignorance, Eye, Liberty

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• The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark race who were the original possessors of the island, who never mixed with the invaders coming later from the east, but were slowly driven into the western mountains.

  Laurie Lee

  Wine, Dark, Islands

  Laurie Lee (2015). “I Can't Stay Long”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• One of our greatest challenges as Christians is to be driven by the love of Christ rather than constantly seeking after God's comfort.

  Beth Moore

  Christian, Challenges, Comfort

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• The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

  Charles Bukowski

  Giving, Mad, Alternatives

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

  Jay Samit

  Ambition, Careers, Circumstances

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2015

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• On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Data

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• In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

  Alfred Brendel

  Moving, Yield, Despair

  Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing

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• Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

  Nick Morgan

  Letting Go, Thinking, Giving

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• By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.

  Phil Cooke

  Art, Horse, Hands

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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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• The bottom line is that you will not lose fat effectively with exercise-driven weight-loss efforts unless your eating habits moderate insulin production.

  Mark Sisson

  Loss, Exercise, Effort

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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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• Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ideas, People, Progress

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Music, Drawing, Mind

  Letter to Theo from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

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• And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

  Plato

  Health, Doctors, Names

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• What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Choices, Humanity, Determined

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.179, SUNY Press

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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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• It's an earnings-driven market. The big question is whether the flow of earnings can rescue the market from the twin dreadnoughts of higher oil and interest rates.

  Larry Wachtel

  Oil, Earning, Flow

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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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