Quotes About Driven

Those who know me would say I'm a passionate and hard-working mom and a community leader who knows how to get things done.

I'm not a patient person.

I don't think patient would be the first word that anybody that knows me would describe me as. But I think that's anybody in competitive sports.

Lucy is such a perfectionist.

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

man is driven to professionalism, producing wealth for himself and others, continually

he has too much fear, so much that he is driven to enact the thing of which he is afraid, lest it should happen of its own accord. I think that if I had known, as a child, what was possible in terms of pain, I might have had much the same response.

I've never been the actor that's waiting for a job. I always have 15,000 other things going on.

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

I've always been quite driven so it wasn't like the cancer was my wake-up call.

We make no apology for being bold and ambitious.

Countries aren't built by boring people.

Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.

I'm not a businessman.

I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

I love being busy.

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

If a car hasn't been driven for a long time and you take it out in the summer, adding some coolant will prevent the radiator from overheating.

meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain, but from being weary of pleasure.....It is not pain that has driven the West into emptiness, it has been the drowning of meaning in the oceans of our pleasures.

To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative -- this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.

Who can tell, when he sets forth to wander, whither he may be driven by the unscertain currents of existence, or when he may return, or whether it may ever be his lot to revisit the scenes of his childhood?

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.