Driven Quotes
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I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
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Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.
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Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
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Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.
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Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.
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A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.
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“Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.”
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It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
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In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
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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.
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I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
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It is true that other people can help you, and to lasting effect.. .If I hadn't had Beckett in 1940, I'm not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure.. .At that time he he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on.. .I don't know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in 'The Unamable'.
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I've never been driven by box office.
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Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
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Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.
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The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
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The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
