Quotes with driven

  • A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
  • Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
  • Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
  • An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
  • If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
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  • Desiderius Erasmus A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • B. C. Forbes A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bob Dylan A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • William Frederick Book A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.
    William Frederick Book
    American psychologist and professor of psychology
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  • Anthony Trollope A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Barry Eisler Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Calista Flockhart And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Sri Sarada Devi As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
    Sri Sarada Devi
     
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  • Bruce Rauner Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.
    Bruce Rauner
    American businessman, philanthropist and politician (1956 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • James Baldwin Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brad D. Smith Customer-driven innovation was at the core of Intuit's first product, 'Quicken,' and it continues to guide us as we look to solve new problems in areas like mobile payments. Products like Intuit 'GoPayment' and the IntuitPayment Network are helping small businesses get paid faster, keeping cash flow strong and their business healthy.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Bruno Mars Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • George Eliot Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Billy Gibbons Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Hyman G. Rickover Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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