Driven Quotes - Page 35

• To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

  Billy West

  Character, Stuff, Plot

  "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.

  Heather Wilson

  Reading, Passion, Fighting

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• When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from love and place you in the realm of hatred. You should know that you have been greatly benefited when you have suffered deeply because of some insult or indignity; for by means of the indignity self-esteem has been driven out of you.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Self Esteem, Mean

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• In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in fear of God; albeit, the true foundation should be one's clinging to God in fear of God.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Essence, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

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• I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Thinking, People, Decision

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• Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

  William Landay

  Stories, Conflict, Stakes

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• When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

  Gina McCarthy

  Technology, Pollution Control, Impact

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• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Chance, Architecture

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

  Peter Norvig

  Thinking, Design, Want

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• The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Car, Bats, Gaps

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• I don’t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It’s become very franchise driven and superhero driven.

  Peter Jackson

  Technology, Superhero, Hollywood

  "Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens on 'The Hobbit,' a Missing Elf, and What's Next (EXCLUSIVE)". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.moviefone.com. December 19, 2014.

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• Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.

  Harold Speed

  Perfection, Rubbish, Advent

  Harold Speed (2012). “The Practice and Science of Drawing”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

  David Cage

  Games, Play, Skills

  "No 'game over' in Beyond: Two Souls, but Jodi can die" by Jessica Conditt, www.engadget.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

  Peter Senge

  Years, People, Majority

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every two years. They perform, tour, record, and collaborate constantly. Uprise.fm will not only make these rare and unique recordings available, we will ensure that the artists are fairly compensated for this work.

  Daniel Lanois

  Artist, Unique, Years

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• Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Writing, Men, Drawing

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• I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.

  Susan Downey

  Beautiful, Passion, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Character, Stories

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• There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.

  Rico Love

  Artist, People, Upset

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• Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Keys, Defense, World

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• Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Desire, Common, Easy

  "The Perfect Mark" by Mitchell Zuckoff, www.newyorker.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I've always been a person who is driven.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Persons

  "AT WORK WITH: Evelyn Lauder; From Pink Lipstick To Pink Ribbons" by Enid Nemy, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 1995.

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• Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

  Lucy Walker

  Ambition, People, Different

  "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.

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• We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Thinking, Break Through

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