Quotes About Driven

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

It was one of the great myths of that time that foreign policy was this pure and uncontaminated area which was never touched by domestic politics, and that domestic politics ended at the water's edge. The truth, in sharp contrast, was that all those critical decisions were primarily driven by considerations of domestic politics, and by political fears of the consequences of looking weak in a forthcoming domestic election.

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game.

Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school assignment, be it playing a musical instrument or writing papers, whatever, he would do at any or all hours of the day".

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Biologically and economically, the doctrine of the harmony of interests was only tenable if you left out of account the interest of the weak who must be driven to the wall, or called in the next world to redress the balance of the present.

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.

I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.

I'm on the daft scale. I mean, I am a typical Virgo in some ways. I am driven. I like to be prepared. I make lists. But I also like to muck around.

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.

I am a type-A planner. That's just how I roll.