Driven Quotes - Page 27

• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Technology, Rich Countries

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Faith, Simple, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1902). “The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons”

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• You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

  David Shore

  Real, Heart, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Hands, Sea

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Geoff Johns

  Believe, Emotional, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Majority, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

  Tony Robbins

  Personality, Intense, Violent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

  Julia Gillard

  Hard Work, Views, Vision

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• I do think it's true that anytime somebody comes to you and says, "I'd like to be in your film," it's never good to dismiss them or make fun of them, because if they're passionate and driven enough, they very well might find a way to be in your film.

  Jodie Foster

  Fun, Thinking, Passionate

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Change shakes us up, and we can thank our Muse for it... we are driven by change to create, to excel, and to become better humans, perhaps even more sensitive humans!

  Max Elliott Slade

  Change, Muse, Sensitive

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• An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Passion, Independent, Artist

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• A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

  Harvey Dunn

  Hurt, Men, Desire

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• Information is key to raising awareness of what our brain withholds from our conscious mind. Unfortunately we are hardwired emotion-driven thinkers. It takes effort and training to exercise introspection and mindfulness.

  David Bloor

  Exercise, Keys, Effort

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• It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

  Willa Cather

  Wall, Failure, Cutting

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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• There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Heart, Thinking

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.78, Random House

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• In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hero, Dumb, Battle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.3

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• For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

  John Dryden

  Long, Length, Found

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.1024-5.

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• My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Apples, Next

  Fortune Magazine, August 26, 1991.

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• By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind.

  William Carlos Williams

  Clouds, Blue, Wind

  William Carlos Williams, Christopher John MacGowan, Robert Crockett (2003). “William Carlos Williams”, p.24, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Law, Practice, Views

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Insane, Machines

  "Dancing in the Flames". Book by Marion Woodman, 1996.

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• If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.

  Hannah Arendt

  Mean, Past, Goal

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?

  William Ernest Hocking

  Religious, Essence, Ideas

  "The Meaning of God in Human Experience". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. IV : The Retirement of the Intellect, p. 38, 1912.

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• The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

  Max Stirner

  Song, Heart, School

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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