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“Conventional sports have undergone an evolution in training methods during the last fifty years. Curiosity and the inherent improvement brought about by competition have driven this evolution to a state of high refinement such that today's athletes have a very specialized approach to training at the elite levels.”

Years States Today Lasts Sports Levels Evolution Approach Training Method Competition Curiosity Athlete Driven Improvement Fifty Elites Inherent Conventional Refinement

Author:Steve House

“What is happening is policy in Israel is being driven by the settlers who don't support a two-state solution, who want their settlements to prevent the possibility of two states. They openly say that.”

Want Two States Support Policy Possibility Solutions Happenings Israel Driven Settlement Settlers

Author:John F. Kerry

“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."”

Ifs Want Needs Should Stills States Today Growth Levels Fields Innovation Active Driven Dogma Infrastructure Playing Fields Market Failure

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“If we look at Germany's infrastructure policy, it has been driven by its mission-oriented focus on green infrastructure. This affects both innovation and infrastructure, old industries and new. The German steel industry, for example, has adapted to the policy by lowering its material content through a 'repurpose, reuse and recycle' strategy.”

Ifs Looks Has Beens Focus Policy Example Materials Industry Innovation Green Strategy Missions Driven Germany Steel Infrastructure Adapted Reuse Steel Industry

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?”

People Evil Company Organization India Profit East Driven Familiar

Author:Steven Knight

“I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.”

Looks Mean Focused Driven Ambitious Cringe

Author:Anna Quindlen

“It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.”

Different Age Driven Significant Changes Over Time

Author:Kiki Smith

“We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.”

“There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as much benignly misguided as they are intentionally and willfully ignorant of the facts of reproduction. That lends itself very well to them being ideologically driven and carrying out agendas that, if they were to be really honest about the facts, would be a tougher sell.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Facts Would Be Choices Honest Ignorance Sells Driven Ignorant Agendas Indulge Reproduction Misguided Willful Ignorance

Author:Willie Parker

“I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.”

Knows World Love Is Trouble Driven

Author:Sylvia Earle

“A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba.”

Men Mind Heart Children Dies Streets Revolution Driven Ashes Routes Heart And Mind Cuba Castro Tracing Havana Santiago

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Everything today is such a massive visual show. It's very rare to get a film where the characters are raw and real - and you can take people back to where they are watching live cinema. With character-driven action. Not visual-driven action.”

People Real Character Shows Today Action Film Driven Cinema Visuals Massive

Author:Wade Eastwood

“I don't think you want political parties that are entirely driven by some extremely doctrinal ideology.”

Thinking Want Political Party Driven Ideology Political Parties

Author:William Kristol

“I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.”

Thinking Trying Lasts Steps Awareness Mass Unique Driven Reverse Craze Ephemera Collectibles

Author:William Gibson

“We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?”

People Ifs Self Helping Culture Left Essentials Driven Defined What If Materialistic God Help God Help Us

Author:Christine Baranski

“It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.”

“It's kind of impossible not to, especially in such a media-driven world.... But, yeah, I'll go home and one of my friends will say, "Oh my gosh, those shoes are so cute." And I'll say, "Oh, they're Christian Louboutins." And they're like, "What?" So yeah, I've definitely learned more names.”

World Kind Home Christian Names Impossible Media My Friends Yeah Shoes Driven Cute Oh My Gosh Louboutins

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that. But comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.”

Littles I Can Hard Wanted School Stuff Comedy Baseball Be Good Driven League Little League Little League Baseball

Author:Adam Sandler

“Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.”

Made Stories Choices Huge Industry Driven Editors Choices Made

Author:Tom Hanks

“I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Social Movement Driven Progressive Surprising Social Movements

Author:Eugene Puryear

“Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.”

People Ifs Speak President Known Democracy Messages Concern Active Driven Barack Spokes Farewell Speaks Out President Barack Obama Vigilant

Author:Aldis Hodge

“What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.”

People Way Happens Would Be Given Support Greater Areas Population Driven Resistance Afghanistan Coming Back Belts Taliban Discarded Underestimated Pashtuns

Author:Ahmed Rashid

“I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.”

People Thinking Humans Different Human Beings Driven Defining

Author:Hozier

“If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.”

People Ifs Whole Helping Progress Plans Groups Type Disease Computer Models Medicine Insight Math Driven Institute Computer Science Seattle Malaria Modelling Polio

Author:Bill Gates

“Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now largely Central American. Four out of five border-crossers detained in South Texas are Guatemalan, Honduran or Salvadoran. They are driven by violence and poverty in their home countries and the desire for family reunification.”

Country States Home Desire Levels United Numbers Poverty United States Five Four Violence Generations South Driven Borders Texas Lowest Entering Migrants Home Country Reunification

Author:Alan Bersin

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

Men Speak Wish Women Clean Gender Driven Instance Cleaning Men Women Sock Funny Men And Women

Book:The Snake Has All the Lines

Source: The Snake Has All the Lines

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.”

Age Walks Driven Dissent Disloyalty

Author:George Clooney

“It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.”

“We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years." That's if it was driven by exploration, but it's never been driven by exploration.”

Ifs Should Years Reason Space Military Moon Ten Driven Exploration Mars

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain.”

People Motivation Pay Driven Checks Exploration Spain Voyages Columbus Magellan

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military.”

America Next Space Race Military Figures Objects Concepts Innovation Driven Space Race

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.”

People Way Views Numbers Clear Trouble Media Normal Standards Driven Complaining Journalism No Point Partisans Small Numbers

Author:Tony Blair

“You know how women have this clock when they want to have a baby? I had this clock where I wanted to win a national award by thirty, be at a big press by thirty-five. I was always working with these self-driven goals.”

Knows Want Self Bigs Wanted Winning Goal Know How Five Baby Presses Driven Clock Thirty Awards Always Working

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.”

Ifs Men Mind Has Beens Self Failing Subjects Poet Madness Driven Experts Gates Controlled Verses Muse Adequate

Book:A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

Source: A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues

“Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.”

Knows Self Motivation Like You Medicine Curiosity Driven Unfortunate

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.”

Technology Industry Directors Innovation Cameras Driven Cinema Science And Technology Movie Director

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I heard about a pastor in a church of 5,000 people who employed two seminary students whose main responsibility was to get four new people baptized each week. When asked, "What happens if they can't meet the quota?", his response was, "Then I'll find two students who can". This man wasn't even remotely interested in true gospel preaching. He was results-driven.”

People Ifs Men Two Happens Church Results Responsibility Four Heard Week Students Response Driven Preaching Pastor Employed Baptized Quota Seminary

Author:Mark Dever

“If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit that a few wise people can determine interest rates. Interest rates should be driven by the market, and people's time preference, and we see these boom-bust cycles.”

People Ifs Should Fall Interest Wise Rate Determine Driven Tyranny Experts Cycles Feds Preference Conceit Interest Rate Wise People

Author:Charles Koch

“A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.”

World Past Race Class Driven Decades Massive World History Unprecedented

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.”

Should Care Able Poverty Serious Should Have Illness Burden Driven Access Health Care Equity Poorest Breakdown Health System Serious Illness

Author:Mary Robinson

“My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I started working in the AIDS activist movement. For me, politics was about getting drugs approved and getting prisoners access to the same kind of drugs that you could get on the outside. It was about getting needle exchanges approved. That was politics. These were policy problems that were killing people, and we were trying to get them changed.”

People Trying Kind Ideas Problem Policy Movement Changed Drug Killing Driven Activism Aids Access Activist Prisoner Needles Approved

Author:Rachel Maddow

“The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the women in all these countries have been driven back into medieval situations. Women who were liberated, women who were doctors and lawyers and poets and writers and - you know, pushed back into this Shia set against Sunnis. The U.S. is supporting al-Qaeda militias all over this region and pretending that it's fighting Islam. So we are in a situation that is psychopathic.”

“In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.”

“[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.”

Want Different Done Moments Type Performances Driven Invisible Freshness Newness

Author:Felicity Jones

“Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.”

Has Beens Economic Development South Educational Driven Factors Miserable Dramatic Expansion Asia Economic Development Thailand South Asia

Author:Amartya Sen

“My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances.”

People Humans Character Interesting Circumstances Horror Extremes Driven Monsters Handle Equations

Author:Ed Gass-Donnelly

“We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.”

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.”

Brain Activity Complexes Driven Interconnected

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.”

“Emotionally, a person can become so negatively driven that they don't respect the privilege of being on this Earth without their mother and their father. They may say it doesn't bother them, but there is something in us about those who are a biological part of us and don't care. People in that situation stop hearing the other voices that love them, hold them, trust them and tells them how great they are. They're focused on that one person who isn't answering them.”

People May Persons Care Earth Mother Father Voice Situation Privilege Don't Care Hearing Focused Driven Bother That One Person

Author:Bill Cosby

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