Driven Quotes

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!

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Also there is a twist to the story as I'm being haunted and driven crazy, attacked and so on. All I seem to do is run and scream and cry in every scene.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

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.

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!

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.