Driven Quotes - Page 5

• A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

  Edward Sapir

  Country, Countries Of The World, Doe

  Edward Sapir (1968). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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• Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

  Ryan Seacrest

  Ego, Fame, Showbiz

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• Greed has driven the world crazy. And I think I'm lucky that I have a place over here that I can call home.

  Nina Simone

  Crazy, Home, Thinking

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• Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Scary, Film

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• I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

  Emily Watson

  Character, Thinking, Dragons

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• I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Character, Action

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• For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Kids

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 01, 2012.

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• In my songs there's a lot of intimate, personality - driven, sweet singing, and that's the kind I actually love the most, as close to how we speak as possible.I do get to do the crazy high notes, of course. But that's also a part of me. I'm full spectrum. A vulnerable side and a side that wants to kick ass.

  Idina Menzel

  Song, Sweet, Crazy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I spend a lot of time on Twitter, and it's a very interesting place. People are so driven to aggression. To me it's a funny thing. I grew up in an aggressive family, so I'm not at all intimidated by being verbally abused. I have no fear with words.

  Alison Moyet

  People, Interesting, No Fear

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• If 5000 people bought my record, I would appreciate those 5000 people. I make music for them because music isn't supposed to be so money driven. I didn't get into the music game because I wanted to make money. I sing because that's a God given talent of mine and it's something I love to do. If it's 10,000 or a million people, I'm going to give people the music they like from me. That's what being an artist is. Whoever likes your work, that's who you do it for.

  Marcus Ramone Cooper

  Artist, People, Appreciate

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• That character in Solitary Man is probably most like me in real life: a solid person who has a good head on her shoulders and is very driven and practical, and not afraid to set boundaries. That's sort of my center. I come from the same place as the character in Solitary Man.

  Jenna Fischer

  Real, Character, Men

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

  Luc Besson

  Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When your alarm goes off and you jump out of bed, what is the nature of the mind in that moment? Are you already like, "oh my God," your calendar pops into your mind and you're driven already, or can you take a moment and just lie in bed and just feel your body breathing. And remember, "oh yeah, brand new day and I'm still alive." So, I get out of bed with awareness, brush my teeth with awareness. When you're in the shower next time check and see if you're in the shower.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Lying, New Day, Mind

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

  Kristin Davis

  Female

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In one way they make the movie something you can handle because it's character driven and it's slightly off center. That's what's attractive, but it also has the potential of being cutesy and sappy. I am so uninterested in that.

  Campbell Scott

  Character, Attractive, Uninterested

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I didn't really care about money. I really wanted to follow my bliss. I really wanted to do the things that would make my life satisfying, in the fullest sense, and I was never thinking about money when I made those decisions. And I certainly didn't want my life to be driven by money. I'd seen my father's' life driven that way, and, although again, in retrospect, I understand fully why he did that, I didn't wanna live looking for that kind of financial reward. I wanted to live with the emotional, psychological, and even moral reward of doing the kind of work I do, which is, y'know, writing.

  Neal Gabler

  Writing, Thinking, Emotional

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Good C-suite executives rise to the top because they can execute. Good execution at the operational level requires us to have a solid handle on details - that doesn't mean operators don't delegate, it just means that they have a strong line of site to the front lines because they know that is where operational success is driven. As people move into the c-suite, they hold on to their operational persona and likely feel the need to do more. But success in the c-suite comes from our ability to be more strategic and trust that we have selected highly qualified people to take our places.

  James Merlino

  Strong, Moving, Mean

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to look into the future with any degree of accuracy is to use theory, statements of what causes what and why. If executives have the right theories in their heads, they can very quickly interpret market developments. They can identify what matters and why, and act accordingly. So we suggest decision-makers should start by gaining a deep understanding of the relevant collection of theories, and then be alert for signals that indicate certain types of developments.

  Clayton Christensen

  People, Understanding, Relevant

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When you're a young person, you are biologically driven to believe you are immortal, and that's why you engage in all kinds of risky behavior you stop once you feel death's cruel breath on your neck. I think that as a straight white man in particular, I was tempted to believe that I was immortal and eternal because, after all, in this culture, straight white dudes are the heroes of every story that you see or read about with very rare exception. So how could the story go on without the hero, you know?

  John Hodgman

  Hero, Believe, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Plenty of people within the Moslem world are not engaged in a clash with te West and don't want to do so; and none of the terrorist acts was an attack by the Moslem world on the West. They were attacks by particular groups of Moslems on particular Western individuals or nations. If we allow ourselves to de driven to thinking of every Moslem as an enemy or every Westerner as a friend, for that matter in these circumstances, we'll have no basis for moving forward.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Being branded to some subset of your fans is important when it comes to creating films and characters they're not familiar with. It's enormously difficult to market to a global audience, and it's becoming more difficult. A brand matters to parents, whereas kids are largely driven by their urgent reaction to the product. In the future, where there are going to be choices that have to be made by parents because it will be prohibitively expensive to access everything, those will be driven partially by brand.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Character, Kids, Choices

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• The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence and public squalor." Funding for public education has sharply declined. As higher education is driven to a business model in accord with neoliberal doctrine, administrative bureaucracy has sharply increased at the expense of faculty and students. Cost-cutting leads to hyper-exploitation of the more vulnerable, creating a new precariat of graduate students and adjuncts surviving on a bare pittance, replacing tenured faculty.

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Students, Graduates

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life as a poet seemed like a bohemian fantasy. But maybe my zigzagging trajectory is just an excuse for tardiness, when fear is really the root of any reason I might give. My perfectionism and pace are certainly driven by fear that a poem is imperfect or incomplete. More significantly, my struggle to fully dedicate myself to poetry was a fear of failure.

  Robin Beth Schaer

  Struggle, School, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the conditions of their labor, they're not supposed to care about pay. This is the kind of vision of the ideal teacher, which is again and again brought to the fore by reformers, the ideal teacher as someone who is passionately driven to serve children. Almost to the exclusion of a more pragmatic view of what the job actually entails.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Children, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in their vision for public education. They have a missionary zeal. And this to me connects them a lot to folks today, whether it's education activist Campbell Brown or former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. It's a righteous sense, a reform push that's driven by a strong belief in a particular set of solutions.

  Dana Goldstein

  Strong, School, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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