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“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.”

Want Kind Whole Stories Bigs Able Gone Nice Advantage Driven Deadline Big Picture Gone Away

Author:Matt Groening

“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.”

Way Mind Made Philosophy Reading Strong Results Cases Habit Pages Research Driven Suits My Way Organized Metaphysics

Author:Neal Stephenson

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Problem Asks Goes On Asking Passionate Determined Driven Commit Nervous Ask Me No Problem Asking Questions Runway

Author:Naomi Campbell

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

Process Deals Innovation Driven Fund Uncertain Venture Too Short Exit Venture Capital Lengthy

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“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.”

Wealth Path Journey Willing Discipline Track Debt Driven Covered Consumption Modest Thorns Vines

Author:Benjamin Franklin

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

Ideas Policy Driven

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“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.”

Ifs World Ideas Matter Sex Support Rich Rocks Color Agree Driven Merit Changing The World Valleys Get Real Places In The World Silicon Old You Silicon Valley

Author:Michael Arrington

“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.”

Feels May Bigs Millions Crazy Driven Technological

Book:Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary

Source: Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary

“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”

People Needs Kind Important Certain Loss Ability Emotion Brain Crazy Discipline Terrible Adversity Extremes Driven Investors Irrational Temperament Going Crazy

Author:Charlie Munger

“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.”

Hard Reason Reality Seems Memories Mankind Rocks Dangerous Creation Lessons Driven Awful Fallen Collectives Hard Lessons Collective Memory

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“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.”

Has Beens States Economy Rate Profit Productions Driven Significant Manufacturing Planners Significant Change

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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.”

Past Glory Gold Driven Lust Our Past Veins

Author:Waris Ahluwalia

“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.”

“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.”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Girl Stuff Views Pieces Directors Female Males Point Of View Driven

Author:Jerusha Hess

“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.”

Thinking Feels Stills Today Gay Driven Double Life

Author:Jens Spahn

“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.”

Ifs Country America Creation Racism Driven Our Country Acknowledge Racist Rooted Stereotype Projection

Author:Claudia Rankine

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Men Needs Feels Looks Stills Black Imagination Race Taken Fronts Position Killing Incredibles Driven Upset Demon Outrageous Incredible Hulk

Author:Claudia Rankine

“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.”

People Thinking Way Writing Ideas Sometimes Character Novel Movement Emotional Driven Division Describing Emotional Things

Author:Dana Spiotta

“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.”

Ideas Character Moving Novel Driven

Author:Dana Spiotta

“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.”

World Writing I Can Book Can Do Written Horror Add Starting Corners Driven Driving Recognition Margins Exhilaration

Author:Vito Acconci

“Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.”

Belief Leader Draws Passionate Driven Followers

Book:The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

Source: The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“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.”

Art Wanted School Artist Driven Paradise Art School

Author:Sean Scully

“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.”

Hard Wanted Found Parent Growing Up Growing Brother Lucky Musician Actresses Driven My Brother My Sister Great Parents

Author:Grace Gummer

“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.”

Knows Has Beens Hard Desire Degrees Scientist Originals Driven Intense Contribution Fascinated

Author:Jack W. Szostak

“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.”

World Needs Challenges Theory Including Critical Driven Changing The World Consuming Idolatry Critical Theory

Author:Carl R Trueman

“We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.”

Knows Humans Heart Self Understanding Walks Forever Grace Holy Edges Driven Hungry Who We Are Craving Embedded God's Grace Self Understanding Holy God

Book:A Hunger for the Holy: Nuturing Intimacy with Christ

Source: A Hunger for the Holy: Nuturing Intimacy with Christ

“It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable”

Feels Sometimes Whole Together Film Performances Driven Working Together Enjoyable Ensemble Film Set

Author:Cillian Murphy

“Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.”

Force Evolution Insight Driven Adaptation

Author:Gary A. Klein

“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.”

“I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will say this is a fellow who knew how to make decisions, and made some tough ones, stood by them, wasn't driven by the latest opinion poll, but was driven by some core principles from which he would not deviate.”

Thinking Looks Made Helping Wanted President Decision Opinion Principles Tough Fellows Driven Core Polls Deviate Opinion Polls

Author:George W. Bush

“I do feel like the world is a better and happier place now that my son is here. That's so cliche, but it's true. I just have a new perspective; I'm more driven. Also, the thing that stands out to me is that I'm not as selfish. Before you have a child, you're doing everything for yourself. But now it's about what's best for him, and I'm enjoying that shift.”

World Feels Children Enjoy Son Perspective Driven Selfish My Son Standing Out Cliche New Perspective

Author:Tia Mowry

“A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.”

People Want Giving Challenges Shots Driven Discouraged

Author:Archie Panjabi

“Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.”

Artist Creative Risk Driven Trends Be Creative Communicators

Author:Zac Posen

“Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.”

Asks Existence Poverty Worry Materials Labor Hunger Driven Exhausting

Author:Kathy Acker

“In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither.”

Order Realizing Emotion Hell Driven Enormous Stable

Author:Mickey Rourke

“When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.”

Years Ends Pain Opinion Possession Dues Driven Pursuit Gods Will Treated Insanity Uncomfortable Demon Wicked Brutality Madmen Systematic Inflicting Pain

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.”

Men Mankind Driven Insanity Blindness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.”

Knows May Accepting Scientist Driven Data Characteristics Newton Great Scientist

Book:The Unnatural Nature of Science

Source: The Unnatural Nature of Science

“The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there.”

Way Certain Jesus Christ Enemy Victory Jesus Christ Crosses Hatred Sake Driven Hung Disciple Fellowship Christ Alone

Book:A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Source: A testament to freedom: the essential writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.”

Self Problem Awareness Lows Self Awareness Driven

Author:Bill Hybels

“I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.”

Art School Acting Study College Disappointment Driven Chemistry Gross

Author:Roger Bart

“I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is what it is. Hollywood is driven by the financial system, so if they think that it has a brand and people are going to go see it because it's a recognizable property, they're going to remake it.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Hollywood Property Financial Driven Brands Remakes It Is What It Is Financial System

Author:James Wan

“Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.”

Thinking Wells War America Fun Common Enemy Western Oil Driven Consumers Barrels North America Incumbents Common Enemy

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.”

Action Principles Models Ethics Deserve Capitalism Driven Entrepreneurship Heroic Free Market Thoughts And Actions Business Ethics

Author:Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

“The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...”

Way Kind Different Problem Values Type Dresses Islam Driven Superiors Arrogance Assumption Arrogant Multiculturalism

Author:Mark Durie

“Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing.”

People Action Film Driven Editing Exterior Action Films

Author:Janusz Kaminski

“Even then, I didn't quite know what to make of it [captain Kirk death]. I was mystified by why I was doing it, why I was so driven to do it, and why it was affecting me like it was. I still don't know what it means. It's a strange singular experience. I don't even know anyone to talk to about it because I don't know anyone who's had that experience.”

Knows Mean Stills Strange Driven Captains Kirk Captain Kirk

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.”

Driven Conclusion Narrative Plot Resolution Inherent

Book:Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

Source: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.”

Ifs Action Political Term Democracy Driven Debate Traditional Obedience Apathy Arena General Public Political Debates

Book:Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

Source: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

“Competing against each other leaves little space for reciprocity and the growth of social capital. Running against another in a race may benefit our speed, but jointly organising the sports day produces cooperation and trust. There are many situations where cooperation and reciprocity are more effective than competition. Civic virtues come from building on what we have in common rather than by using our differences to create in-groups, outgroups and fear driven competition”

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