Driven Quotes - Page 28

• In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Discovery, Careers

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• Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Energy, Collaboration

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jan 22, 2015

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• There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Life, Wish, Force

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Mad, Logic

  "Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of all is that each day Christ should reign among holy men. And this happens when the devil's power has been driven out of our hearts through the expulsion of sinful foulness and when God has begun to reign within us amid the good odors of virtue. With fornication vanquished, chastity rules; with anger overcome, peace is king; with pride under foot, humility is sovereign.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Kings, Father

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• My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

  Marion G. Romney

  Adversity, Soul, Growth

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• ... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.

  Pope Francis

  Pride, Free Gifts, Tasks

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• I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

  Johnny Depp

  Ambitious, Moments

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• I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Iraq, Ends

  Attributed to George Bush by Nabil Shaath in a TV documentary "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs", news.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2005.

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• An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, People, Honest

  "The truth about the war for talent" by Seth Godin, seths.blog. September 18, 2013.

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• America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Father, Ideas

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Delight, Holiness, Pleasure

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.666, Discovery House

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• I've never been driven by box office.

  Charlize Theron

  Office, Boxes, Box Office

  FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Jan 03, 2013

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• Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Stress, Heart, Smoking

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jul 27, 2011

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• If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.

  Richard Branson

  Motivation, Ideas, Differences

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• Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

  Bob Goff

  Talking, Decision, Figures

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2015

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• The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Self, Church

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• You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

  Thomas Keller

  Ambition, Focused

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• Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Sorrow, World

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Distance, Fire, Two

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• I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own, not only when they are driven somewhere. I want them to grow up in an environment that is not just a place where people sleep but where people work.. and where people enjoy themselves.

  Moshe Safdie

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

  Moshe Safdie, John Kettle (1987). “Beyond Habitat by 20 years”

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

  Chanakya

  Elephants, Lakes, Lust

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• When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Struggle, Fall, Commitment

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