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• Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

  Frederick Seitz

  Science, Innovation, Curiosity

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.39, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Decision, Curiosity, Desire

  "This Business Of Exploring". Book by Roy Chapman Andrews, 1935.

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• The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Driving, Offensive

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• My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

  Joyce Banda

  Husband, Legacy, Stories

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• Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope...

  Jacques Diouf

  Progress, Driving, Hunger

  "Sub-Saharan malnutrition worse than 10 years ago" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2005.

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• Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

  Stefan Zweig

  Hero, Discovery, Conquer The World

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• I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Driving, Kind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Opportunity, Awards, Everyday

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• I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Opportunity, Self, Missing

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• Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

  Eric Maisel

  Ambition, Artist, Driving

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

  Herbert Schiller

  Driving, Ignored, Economy

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Communication, Mean

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• The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Driving, Problem, Authority

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force.

  Renee Lawless

  Trophies, Driving, Wonderful

  "Putting Life in Perspective: Renée Lawless". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.

  Phil Gramm

  Thinking, Reality, White

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• I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.

  James Hetfield

  Jobs, Best Job, People

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

  Robin Sharma

  Years, Driving, Lawyer

  Source: www.pickthebrain.com

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• Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Art, Book, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Spiritual, Teacher, Interesting

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Garden, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Activism has always been the driving force for change.

  David Swanson

  Driving, Force, Activism

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• My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.

  Michelle Rhee

  Successful, Parent, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.

  Anita Roddick

  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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• The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

  Max Weber

  Religious, World, Revolution

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