Driven Quotes
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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.
Stephen Covey -
It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
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People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
Mohnish Pabrai -
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Richard Whately -
The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
Tony Blair -
I hope I'm very similar to my mum because she is a fantastic mother. She was driven as well as being incredibly protective and caring, and I think that is important.
Sarah Parish -
I've always been a person who is driven.
Evelyn Lauder -
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.
Dana Goldstein
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
Ray Bradbury -
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.
Terence McKenna -
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
Paul Newman -
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 -
I just drove. I could have driven forever. I don’t know how I managed to find my spot in the desert, but I found it. It was as if I had a compass hidden somewhere inside me. One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.
Seth Godin
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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.
Richard O'Brien -
The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.
Tony Blair -
Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold -
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
Sofia Coppola -
Most of my films have been very character driven.
Rana Daggubati -
Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.
Simon Sinek
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
Charles Baxter -
No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.
Trenton Lee Stewart -
There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand.
Hayao Miyazaki -
Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.
Michael Horton