Driven Quotes - Page 17

• I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.

  Thomas Menino

  Suicide, Suicidal, Opportunity

  "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor Who Led Boston's Renaissance, Is Dead at 71" by Katharine Q. Seelye, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2014.

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• New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

  Freeman Dyson

  Old Things, Entrepreneur, Tools

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• Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster.

  George Will

  Thoughtful, Men, Clouds

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• The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Wind, Snow, Wicked

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• It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, People, Priorities

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• By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

  George Orwell

  Party, People, Progressive

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Age, Together

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• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  School, Stories, Credit

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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.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  Moving, Men, World

  Thomas Nelson Page (2008). “John Marvel, Assistant”, p.354, Wildside Press LLC

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• Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Mean, Waiting

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• The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).

  Richard Dawkins

  Epidemics, Hysteria, Childhood

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

  Robert Breault

  Personality, Desire, Passionate

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• Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, People, Mad

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

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• We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

  Jonathon Porritt

  Moving, Needs, Materialism

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• We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

  Menzies Campbell

  Car, Problem, Elimination

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• If you believe that man is inherently flawed-what religious people call 'original sin'-it follows that man, if left to his own devices, will tend towards ego-driven disharmony. Traditionalist conservatives know that absent the restraining hand of religion, tradition, or the state, there is nothing to prevent human beings from acting in ways contrary to their own best interests, or those of the community.

  Rod Dreher

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blow, Rocks, Splits

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.

  Nina Dobrev

  Character, Artist, Soul

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• I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid.

  Quincy Jones

  Dream, Adventure, People

  Quincy Jones (2002). “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones”, p.266, Three Rivers Press

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• They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

  Nellie Bly

  Would Be, Faults, Prison

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly

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• For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

  Bruno of Cologne

  Prayer, Upset, Tears

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• I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

  Adolf Galland

  Three, Today, Made

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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