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“BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.”

People Should Youth India Driven Contact Developing Engagement Mechanism Governance Innovative Brics

Author:Narendra Modi

“People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands.”

People Action Games Missions Driven Complacency Participating Rust

Book:Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential

Source: Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential

“In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.”

Reason Form Process Community Responsibility Society Enlightenment Strive Driven Oneness Mystical Taking Responsibility

Author:Andrew Cohen

“While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.”

Way Mind Doubt Educational Driven Impulse

Author:Terence

“I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.”

Might Law Revolution Resources Driven Parliament Laws Of Nature American Revolution Insisting Retaining

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.”

Writing Character Black Space White Decision Ambition Driven Lust Flawed Black Or White

Author:Kevin James

“Comedy is actually very macho driven.”

Comedy Driven Macho

Author:Scott Thompson

“They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.”

School Scary Driven

Author:George Andrews

“My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!”

May Failing Military Position Driven Troops

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.”

Should Decision Products Driven Data Hunches

Author:Fred Wilson

“There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.”

Differences Economy Information Economics Driven Scales Collaboration New Information Old And New

Book:Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

Source: Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

“Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.”

Needs Helping Artist Driven Preserves Thrive Habitat

Author:William Morris

“Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own moral judgment (the dog) is driven by our own moral reasoning (the tail). The second illusion can be called the wag-theother-dog's-tail illusion: In a moral argument, we expect the successful rebuttal of an opponent's arguments to change the opponent's mind. Such a belief is like thinking that forcing a dog's tail to wag by moving it with your hand will make the dog happy.”

“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.”

Ifs Way Writing May Done Pain Creative Driven Driving Nuts Arrangements Creative Work

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.”

Christian Purpose Promise Driven

Book:The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World

Source: The Gospel-Driven Life: Being Good News People in a Bad News World

“The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.”

Humans Ideas Body Desire Imagination Driven Suspicion Sensibility Human Thought Desire To Live

Author:Richard Powers

“Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.”

Real Ends Desire Interest Driven Criminals Mess Shortcuts

Author:Colin Wilson

“I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.”

Littles Stills Philosophy Hands Energy Havens Changed Judgment Driven Good Judgment

Author:Ted Turner

“I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another... And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.”

Way Believe Order Fighting Individual I Believe Higher Degrees Philosopher Deeper Driven Rings One Way Motive Our Time Standing Out Awakened Good Fight Fight The Good Fight

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.”

Heart Made Eye Passion Felt Sun Rich Taken Pride Lips Driven Proof Snow Hills Substance Possessed Inward Plunder

Book:The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

“The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.”

Results Blood Tears Driven Flesh Knives Quiver

Book:The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

“Ferraris are art, but they love being driven.”

Art Love Is Driven Ferrari

Author:Chris Evans

“Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.”

Needs Reading Consciousness Listening Activity Aim Driven Limitation Motive Listening To Music Reading Poetry

Author:Colin Wilson

“If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.”

Ifs World Lasts Spirit Loses Poverty Driven Naked Selfishness Contempt Everlasting Forlorn

Book:Christian Love: As Manifested in the Heart and Life

Source: Christian Love: As Manifested in the Heart and Life

“I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.”

Character Use Film Masters Directors Shots Driven Coverage Film Directors

Author:Stanley Tucci

“I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.”

People Thinking Trying Ego Perception Driven

Author:Steve Carell

“Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.”

Character Stories Use Motivation Song Singing Driven Believer Hated Pet Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

“Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.”

Men Way Needs Film Amount Driven Reasonable Balanced Avoiding Enjoyable Workaholic Gals Avoiding Life

Author:Joan Cusack

“Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”

Able Imagination Dark Healthy Shame Guilt Corners Driven Monsters Embarrassment Healthy Relationship

Author:Alan Moore

“To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand”

“As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.”

I Can Actors Voice Levels Disappear Driven Disorder Obsessive Fixation Mimicry Obsessive Compulsive Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Author:Edward Norton

“I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.”

World Way Heart Bigs Christian Guy Dark Circumstances Mindset Driven Decent Inward Framework Protestants Great Gifts Sturdy Big Heart Decent Guys

Author:James Ellroy

“Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.”

Knows Way Kind Character Stories Audience Excited Driven

Author:Matthew Bonifacio

“I believe that you can experience very profound moments of change in life...I never would have become an actress if I hadn't dropped out of high school. As a teenager, I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress and eventually the profession embraced me.”

Ifs Believe Made Moments Dream School I Believe Voice Decision High School Profound Actresses Profession Driven Quitting Pursue Teenager Life Changing

Author:Halle Berry

“My advice is that you go and do something that you are really driven to do. I loved to play baseball and, because I loved it, I practiced it. Some of us have limitations, but if you are passionate about something and if you have the drive, then you can accomplish it.”

Ifs Play Advice Baseball Passionate Accomplish Driven Limitation

Author:Jim Abbott

“I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.”

Ifs Feels Writing Self Driven Guilty Self Indulgent

Author:Marge Piercy

“The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.”

Ifs Want Stills Might Life Is Mystery Dying Reader Dear Conviction Driven Newspapers Sections

Author:Don DeLillo

“Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.”

Choices Kings Driven Consumers Queens Distribution

Author:Michael Eisner

“There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.”

May Littles Doe Reason Decision Speed Driven Reason Why Decision Making Bad Things Deadline Proactive

Author:David Allen

“Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.”

Firsts Made Whole Stuff Sound Company Technology Computer Creating First Time Edges Driven Screens Bunch Sophisticated Technological Stamps Mapping Atari Midi

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.”

Thinking Feels I Can Sometimes Matter Happens Bits No Matter What Driven Believer Complaining Firm

Author:Tyler Oakley

“Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.”

Moments Sound Silence Television Filled Extraordinary Driven Screens Mediums Moment Of Silence Filled In

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.”

Character Shows Fall Tvs Directors Falling In Love Driven Tv Shows

Author:Doug Liman

“The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.”

“In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.”

World Way Humans Environment Elements Connections Inspired Driven Meaningful Lively Human Connection

Author:David Rockwell

“Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.”

Ifs Country Hands Wish Company Share Guilt Jew Driven Our Country Blasphemy

Book:On the Jews & Their Lies

Source: On the Jews & Their Lies

“In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.”

“America's heart and soul is more embedded in our love of liberty, self-reliance, and tolerance than by our foreign policy, driven by powerful special interests with little regard for the Constitution.”

“I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.”

Done Past Film Sex Differences Scene Adults Driven Narrative Storyline Gonzo Vignettes

Author:Sasha Grey