Quotes About Driven

Mr. Faber is a huge role model. He's a UFC Hall of Famer. He's such a driven person and a champion.

No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an opera wench!

I've always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing.

I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.

I'm shy; I work hard.

Women aren't driven by or thrilled by outperforming the market. They're much more excited about, 'Can I meet my goal?'

If people are not tied to the work from a mission-driven focus, I don't think you're going to motivate them.

Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

although it is true that after three weeks of heavy fighting the enemy was driven off, it was the impact of the initial blow that resonated most loudly.

But to go back in such circumstances is a terrible disaster. It amounts to complete defeat; and is tantamount to a confession that you must go home, because you are unable to ride to hounds. A man, when he is compelled to do this, is almost driven to resolve at the spur of the moment that he will give up hunting for the rest of his life.

With all his amateurish fumbling, Martin had one characteristic without which there can be no science: a wide-ranging, sniffing, snuffling, undignified, unselfdramatizing curiosity, and it drove him on.

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.

Baseball is about going home, and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need. It tells us how good home is.

You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else. This going headlong for things is a mechanistic view, and people in general aren't machines. They have minds of their own-mostly peasant minds, at their easiest when they are in the familiar furrow.

You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else.

To be passionate is like being used to drinking a lot of water. And whoever that drinks a lot of water hardly falls sick. Similarly, whoever that is positively passionate will hardly fail in whatever he or she does. Or rather, he or she will often emerge a success eventually. Thus, you've got to be passion driven in all you do. For, to be passionate is even better off than to be fortunate. Because, passion initiates and guarantees fortunes. That's just that.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

Our parents were then driven out of Paradise, and one leaf alone was given to each, wherewith to hide their nakedness.

It's extraordinary, is it not, Cornelius? A creature of such power--shaken by his own shadow! Driven by fear--of himself!

When I started modeling, I was young and sort of a bit reckless - I wanted to make money and didn't really care about anything else.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

I am a hard-working entrepreneur.

My teams have always been very hard-working and competitive.