Driven Quotes - Page 6

• If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Years, Salary

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• There are a variety of ways in which a wedge is driven between the reality of the world outside, the motion of atoms, and our conception of what is there. Some of it has to do with what we're told, some of it to do with sensibilities that might be described as cultural, some of it to do with habit, some to do with heuristics we, as Homo sapiens, invoke because we cannot do otherwise - to name just a few of the impediments.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Reality, World, Habit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our industry is so technologically driven that often I Skype with directors or send tapes in to people. It's so common now that sometimes even when I'm here I'll be send tapes for things that are based in the U.K. There's never really a right place, right time anymore. Even something that's L.A. based, the director might be in New York or they might be on location in Budapest. I think everyone's really accepting of the fact that people are all over the world all the time. In a funny way, you can be an actor now and live anywhere, so long as you have internet.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to. But I spent two and a half years in India and chose to do stories about women because I was shocked by their treatment. My stories in the Middle East and on the border of Europe and Asia were a response to my time in India. They weren't driven by a feminist idea but when you're moved by women's issues in these countries you can't help becoming a feminist somehow.

  Olivia Arthur

  Senior, Country, Feminist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I will always need my son, no matter what age I am. My son has made me laugh, made me proud, made me cry, seen me cry, hugged me tight, seen me fail, cheered me up, kept me on my toes, and at times driven me crazy, But my son is a promise that I will have a friend forever!

  Unknown

  Father, Crazy, Son

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• One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.

  Brad Lewis

  Philosophy, Moving, Creativity

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• At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."

  Amy Sillman

  Feelings, Trying, Done

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• How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

  Amy Adams

  Character

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 8, 2003.

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• The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

  Drake

  Girl, Singers, Modeling

  "The GQ&A: Drake". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

  Hilary Duff

  Going For It, Wanted, Moved

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Crazy, Ocean, Book

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• Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

  Freeman Dyson

  Hysteria, Global Warming

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• The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

  James Dyson

  Technology, East, World

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• Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

  Roger Ebert

  Ideas, Mind, Desire

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.402, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Tired, Past, Thinking

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• Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.

  Tim Ferriss

  Activity

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• I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uncles, School, Guy

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• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Adventure, Opportunity

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Home, Kids

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• I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

  Frank Gehry

  Would Be, Building, Acceptable

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  Zaha Hadid

  East London, Driving, Surprise

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• I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

  John Irving

  Character, Stories, Fans

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Class

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• True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

  Naveen Jain

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Thinking

  "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016.

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• And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

  T. D. Jakes

  God, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Bishop TD Jakes on Hell, Politics, Film Projects". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 19, 2011.

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