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“We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.”

Knows World Running Spiritual Trouble Havens Vices Storm Driven Ran Spares Ulysses

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Sure enough, as merger has followed merger, journalism has been driven further down the hierarchy of values in the huge conglomerates that dominate what we see, read and hear. And to feed the profit margins journalism has been directed to other priorities than "the news we need to know to keep our freedoms"”

Knows Needs Has Beens Enough Values Huge News Profit Driven Priorities Journalism Hierarchy Margins Mergers Profit Margin

Author:Bill Moyers

“You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.”

Ifs Years Mind Winning Goal Loses Levels Ten Sight Excellence Driven Titles Captured Heavyweights

Book:God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir

Source: God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir

“It's hard to be driven when you're being driven.”

Hard Driven

Author:Paul Solomon

“Most choices are driven by immediate results.”

Choices Results Driven

Author:Phil McGraw

“The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Can Do Written Paid Pressure Driven Great Things Therapy Make Believe Antisocial

Author:Stephen King

“Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.”

Long Impossible Driven Autonomy

Author:Gabor Mate

“Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.”

“Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.”

Ideas Artist Girl Felt Painting Driven Power Trip

Author:Malcolm Morley

“It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.”

Want Shows Certain Difficult Challenges Males Driven Mandates

Author:Scott Speedman

“I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.”

Character Feelings Bigs Driven Big Things Personal Feelings

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.”

Economy Economics India Tragedy Crisis Greed Driven Unnecessary

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.”

People Thinking Reality Challenges Cases Instinct Driven Guts Gut Instinct

Author:Laszlo Bock

“Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.”

Culture Majority Competition Driven Differentiate

Author:Josh James

“It is important for the club to find a balance in a world driven by economic and political needs. This club usually does that [on leaving Liverpool]”

World Needs Doe Important Political Economic Balance Leaving Clubs Driven Liverpool

Author:Gerard Houllier

“If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.”

Ifs Desire Mistake Driven

Author:Edwin Catmull

“The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.”

“If I am seen as successful, it's all the more reason not to change - not to lose track of friends, not to be driven everywhere, not to go and get away from the world. That, to me, is real success: enjoying what you do, but being the same person.”

Ifs World Persons Real Reason Enjoy Loses Successful Track Driven Get Away Real Success

Author:Michael Palin

“Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.”

People Thinking Looks Done Courses Born Church Views Stage Ought Drama Judgment Hatred Theater Harm Attraction Driven Burning Ministers Look Up Persecution Rivals

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I'm afraid too many of us Christians don't know what we really believe. Like a cork in the ocean, driven and tossed by the waves, we bounce from opinion to opinion... We've become activity junkies, seldom stopping long enough to decide what really matters to us, too busy to determine what's really worth living for, let alone worth dying for.”

Knows Believe Long Matter Enough Christian Opinion Dying Activity Ocean Busy Wave Determine Driven Stopping Worth Living Too Busy Bounce Junkie Cork

Author:Dennis Rainey

“I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.”

Guy Individual Process Competition Driven Learning Process Accolades

Author:Kevin Garnett

“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”

Ifs Humans Happens Chance Brain Study Students Revolution Driven Technique Data Professors Engineers Reverse Rumor Medieval Student Success Human Brain Tailors Data Science

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had it; and, because we do not know how to judge anything, we have been led here and pushed there, beaten up, driven, politically, religiously and socially. We don't know, but it is difficult to say we don't know.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Lost Difficult Know How Judging Sick Driven Beaten Sick Society

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.”

Player Team Ego Driven Messi Team Player

Author:Jurgen Klinsmann

“Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment.”

Feels Character Names Situation Genius Directors Driven Brilliant Submit Embarrassment Humiliate Bards Love Actually

Author:David Edelstein

“The wicked man, when he dies, is driven to his grave, but the Christian comes to his grave.”

Men Christian Dies Driven Graves Wicked Wicked Man

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.”

Reason America Given Nations Generations Policy Building Keys Standards Machines Driven Reason Why Makers Factories Ancestor Consuming Irresponsible Policy Makers

Author:Kurt Richebacher

“Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.”

Children Has Beens Two Today Social Parent Black Grew Grew Up Slavery Driven Legacy Desperate Ghetto Pathology

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear.”

Mean Action Optimism Accounts Investment Driven Managers Shareholders Underperformance

Author:Richard Chandler

“Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.”

Men Doe Ends Wise Fool Fundamentals Driven Trends Speculation

Author:Warren Buffett

“If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.”

Ifs Want Looks Littles Seems Kids Bits Generations Little Bit Scary Driven This Generation

Author:Kim Basinger

“I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.”

Ambition Driven

Author:Kim Basinger

“My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.”

Writing Past Creative Driven Printed Past Experiences

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.”

People Different States Character Pieces Driven Versions Boat Native Native American American Society Mayflower

Author:John Landgraf

“In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.”

Ifs Knows Way Persons Stories Happens Film Subjects Figures Males Obstacles Harm Driven Love Story Foe Persevere Protagonists

Author:Todd Haynes

“I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.”

Feels Natural Elements Driven Video Visuals Natural Elements

Author:Fredrik Bond

“Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.”

Needs Process Roles Failing Succeed Demand Deny Driven Data Odds Predictions

Book:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.”

Humans Two Turns Given Sin Return Accounts Driven Paradise Impatience Cardinals Deviate Nonchalance

Author:Franz Kafka

“The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.”

Persons Creative Hero Driven Demon Captives Legendary Creative Person

Author:Carl Jung

“We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.”

Wells Feelings Knowing Driven Rope Velvet Separating Nightclubs Premieres

Author:Janet Jackson

“Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.”

Moments Happens Enjoy Focused Driven

Author:Alicia Keys

“In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.”

Real Economy Driven Real Work

Book:Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know

Source: Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know

“Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.”

Self Social Process Products Despair Driven Inevitable Idealism Indulgence Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience Self Indulgence

Author:Terence McKenna

“If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Together Courses Community Technology Creative Dog Design Building Like You Internet Machines Bases Deeper Driven Code Freak Capitalist Thrust

Author:Terence McKenna

“Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.”

“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.”

Character Stories Novel Fans Effects Century Majors Driven Passages Minors 19th Century Passage Of Time Minor Characters

Author:John Irving

“Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.”

Firsts Mean Important Values Force Principles Driven Priorities Agendas Executing First Things First

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.”

Action Desire Belief Ability Source Behavior Advantage Ultimate Organization Fundamentals Driven Core Competitive Advantage Core Beliefs

Book:Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

Source: Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader

“My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.”

People Ifs Writing Kind Two Character Action Moving Fall Stuff Rooms Emotion Talking Scene Happenings My Favorite Driven Things To Do Chaotic Favorites Things People Talking Stuff I Like

Author:Geoff Johns

“You dream that you want to be a monster maker when you grow up, and that's what happened. I refused to take no for an answer. I just was a very driven kid, who's now a very driven semi-adult.”

Want Dream Kids Grows Answers Growing Up Happened Adults Driven Monsters Makers

Author:Howard Berger

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