Driven Quotes - Page 40

• I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success.

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Gone Away, Stories

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

  Neal Stephenson

  Strong, Philosophy, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am.

  Naomi Campbell

  Asking Questions, People, Looks

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Exit, Venture

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Journey, Discipline, Track

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• Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Policy

  "The Moral-Hazard Myth" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 29, 2005.

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• Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

  Michael Arrington

  Sex, Rocks, Color

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• There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, May, Bigs

  Freeman J. Dyson (1996). “Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary”, p.559, American Mathematical Soc.

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• A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success

  Charlie Munger

  Crazy, Adversity, Loss

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• Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Memories, Reality, Collective Memory

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• From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Significant Change, Economy, States

  "'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Past, Lust, Gold

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• When I was in New York I heard many people saying that the independent film industry was in big trouble. I was reflecting on this when I came home. Realizing that ever since I started filmmaking, people have being saying that. But somehow it keeps going. Filmmakers keep going. We need stories to make sense of the world and some people like me are driven to tell them. I have faith this will always be possible.

  Andrea Arnold

  New York, Independent, Home

  "Director Andrea Arnold On Her Next Film: 'It’s Going to Involve Lots of Wild Kids, Rihanna and a Bear'". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. November 21, 2013.

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• There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

  Jerusha Hess

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Anyone who still feels today that he has to lead a double life because he's gay is driven by a fear that I think is unfounded.

  Jens Spahn

  Gay, Thinking, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

  Claudia Rankine

  Country, America, Racism

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know. We know. We know. And so we don't need to look at it again. And yet everybody is still upset. Everybody is still being driven by their outrageous imagination to the point of killing people because they feel that a black man in front of them is a demon, or the Incredible Hulk.

  Claudia Rankine

  Taken, Men, Thinking

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.

  Dana Spiotta

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.

  Dana Spiotta

  Moving, Character, Ideas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I was starting to recognize a corner I was driving myself into: that all writing could do was refer to things that had already been written. I'm making the margin, but the margin of a book that already exists. I was having this exhilaration at, but at the same time horror of this recognition that I'd driven myself into the world of only books. This is a world of the previously written, and maybe I don't have to add to it, maybe all I can do is measure it.

  Vito Acconci

  Book, Writing, Exhilaration

  "A Conversation with Vito Acconci". Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.

  Albert Mohler

  Leader, Followers, Passionate

  Albert Mohler (2012). “The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters”, p.37, Baker Books

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• When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

  Sean Scully

  Art, School, Paradise

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• Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

  Grace Gummer

  Brother, Growing Up, Parent

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• I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

  Jack W. Szostak

  Desire, Degrees, Intense

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• We need a critical  theory  that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

  Carl R Trueman

  Challenges, Needs, World

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