Driven Quotes - Page 8

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

I'm very driven by writing.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Whoever said "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", has never driven a car there.

Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

Business is a human enterprise, driven and determined by people.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.