Driven Quotes

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
Katarina Witt

Passion, Remember, Special

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.
David Baldacci

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
Paul Gillmor

Nature, Health, Business

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.
Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing, Actually, Media

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.
Todd Phillips

Funny, Working, Stuff

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
John Lancaster Spalding

May, Cannot, Hell

Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.
Nina Simone

Home, Crazy, Greed

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.
Glenn Hughes

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.
Tim LaHaye

Blessed, Book, Find

I have been driven demented in my career.
Lord Mountbatten

Career, Demented

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Jeffery Deaver

Best, Care, Books

All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
George Crook

Fight, Game, Same

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.
Kevin Spacey

Music, Films, Studios

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
Glenn Close

Genius, Passionate, Seductive

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Iris Chang

Often, Economic, Media

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way.
Josh Lucas

Best, Dark, Place

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
Jonathan Miller

Conscience, Social, Curiosity

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.
Colin Wilson

End, Real, Same

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers

End, Jealous, Ambition

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.
Richard O'Brien

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
Richard O'Brien

Money, Fame, Psyche

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress.
Emanuel Celler

Around, Congress, Color

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
Joichi Ito

History, Focus, Democracy

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
Victoria Beckham

Positive, Spiritual, Person

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.
Eric McCormack

Life, Time, Son

The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.
Robert Shea

Business, Christians, Orthodox

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
Samuel Dash

Money, Great, Legal

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mary Harris Jones

Men, Children, Dead

I am not driven.
Cameron Mackintosh

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
Richard MacDonald

Time, Studio, Pieces

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