“I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansCountryWould BeYoungJusticeAppreciateDignityLongingDrivenAwakeningAspirationSyriaEgyptImmuneArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisLibyaYemenTunisia Author:Thomas Friedman
“I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.” WantI CanCan DoDeterminedDrivenBarriers Author:Usain Bolt
“The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldWritingCharacterNovelKnow HowKnowingConceptsDrivenPlotNot Knowing Author:John Irving
“Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being efficient and profiting under the Health Impact Fund, this is exactly what we want, because the company's profit is directly driven by the health impact its registered products achieve.” WantFallBehindsCompanyFailingAchieveProductsImpactProfitDrivenEvolveFundEfficientEfficiencyCompeting Author:Thomas Pogge
“Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.” ModelsDrivenSocialismAlternativesWelfareCollapseFree MarketShiftingGreat DepressionVariables Author:Richard A. Falk
“We've become more and more interrupt-driven. If you have six tasks to do in an hour, you can't just take 60 minutes and divide and have 10 minutes per task. You have 10 minutes per task minus the time required for context-shifting. That will be the next big challenge: figuring out how to fight the distraction-driven mode we're in and stay focused on one thing long enough to get it done.” IfsLongDoneEnoughBigsFightingNextHoursChallengesOne ThingMinutesSixTasksFocusedDrivenDividesDistractionShiftingStay FocusedGet It DoneMinusBig Challenges Author:Paul Saffo
“There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.” IfsWayFeelsWellsFacesUniverseSleepMediaDrivenGet UpPerceiveYour FaceCrapSuperficialSwollen Author:Bette Midler
“But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury: I had some moments along the way, but being able to retire on my own terms after having driven during those decades when safety conditions were more precarious than today - am I lucky, or what?” PeopleWayLooksMomentsDreamTodayAbleTermMy OwnCareersConditionsLuckyMajorsSafetyDrivenDecadesInjuryRetiringPrecarious Author:Mario Andretti
“The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very badly. They're imprisoned, driven into the desert. King Ahab, the epitome of evil in the Bible, condemned Elijah as a "hater of Israel." This is the first self-hating Jew, the origin of the term. It goes right up to the present. That's the history of intellectuals.” PeopleThinkingFirstsSelfHateEvilTermKingsJewIsraelDrivenTreatedDesertProphetElijahEpitomeDissidentsAhab Author:Noam Chomsky
“Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!” IfsWould BeSexIssuesDriven Author:Jean Houston
“How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.” CharacterDriven Author:Amy Adams
“I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But with reading and research, I feel like I have this incredibly instinctive pleasure-driven process that ends up working out for me and inspiring me. It's almost like a maze, like I know eventually I'll hit the heart of my play if I read enough books.” IfsKnowsFeelsWritingYearsHeartI CanBookEndsEnoughPlayReadingProcessPleasureKnow HowAliveTenResearchBasesWork OutDrivenSpontaneousGrooveMazesBe Spontaneous Author:Annie Baker
“My work has never been autobiographical. Although the subjects are driven on a personal perspective it's sort of elevated above me. I try to express something that is more a collective expression of crisis.” TryingSubjectsExpressionPerspectiveCrisisDrivenCollectives Author:Shirin Neshat
“The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers.” WayStillsDesireSongBuiltHip HopRapDrivenTraditionalProducersHipsHopsMotivatedRapperAesthetic Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess I knew that already, but it's so true that I can't get something going unless I can hear the voice.” KnowsSaidI CanStoriesVoiceMinesPoetDrivenRebecca Author:Lynne Tillman
“I feel really uncomfortable writing about Sudan when I'm not there. It always looks different. When you're outside Sudan it's easy to lose sight of how much of what happens is driven by local politics. And when you're in America in particular, there's this sense that what D.C. has to say is the only thing that counts.” FeelsWritingLooksDifferentHappensAmericaEasyLosesParticularSightDrivenLocalsUncomfortableSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.” WellsSoundPossibilityPoetExpressionPagesDrivenVocalBardsIntentionality Author:Anne Waldman
“For me, it's never been an ego situation where I have been "I'm the boss; expletive you." It's always been a situation where someone comes to me and says "I can't tolerate working with you anymore" and I would admit sometimes I wouldn't blame them for that. But I also sometimes think I'm not that difficult to figure out. I don't really know what has driven people to be so angry and bitter - people like my old keyboard player Pogo, who I've known for such a long time. I feel bad for him, but there are grievances with everything.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLongHas BeensI CanSometimesDifficultSituationKnownPlayerFiguresEgoLong TimeBlameAngryDrivenBitterBossTolerateKeyboardsGrievanceExpletivesKeyboard PlayersBitter People Author:Marilyn Manson
“The industry has changed in big ways. When I started making movies, the studios were not all owned by huge conglomerates, so the decisions were made in a very different way. Over the years, I've watched both the rise and the decimation and fall of the DVD as a portion of where you could generate revenue from making this kind of content. We've seen this change in the balance sheet on the international side of the ledger; it's now a much bigger percentage than it is on domestic, even though movies would have been previously really domestically driven.” KindDifferentFallDecisionChangedBalanceDriven Author:Suzanne Todd
“A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.” InspirationWaitingPoetDrivenMuse Author:Clarence Major
“Globally sharks have been killed for their fins, for their cartilage, for their livers, for their meat. But mostly what has driven some species of sharks to near extinction - including the hammerhead shark - is the new luxury taste for shark fin soup.” Driven Author:Sylvia Earle
“The issue of the American justice system is so much broader than any one party, or any area of the country, or any one policy, because the totality of it is that it's driven by the underlying politics. The underlying politics are white fear and wrath and punishment. And that's what tends to be consistent. As I say in the book, that's the magnet that's drawing the iron filings into alignment. That's the thing that's powering all of it. The gravitational pole of those politics operate on each of these disparate little actors.” BookCountryJusticePartyPolicyDrivenConsistentAlignmentJustice SystemMagnet Author:Chris Hayes
“For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and also the compulsions of the body, the muting of the mind as driven by the body. My father had died some years ago so he haunts the book too, just floats through it ghost-like. But, the writing of every book is different for me. They are so like living creatures, these books, so I don't know what's carried over into the writing of the next things - except maybe that I'm best when I make my writing practice a routine.” WritingMindBookDifferentFatherDisciplineWork OutDriven Author:Dawn Lundy Martin
“terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base materialist impulse. It's not like stealing from someone's house, or even assassinating someone. There are very complex ideological reasons behind these almost abstract acts of violence.” KindReasonHouseInterestingViolenceCrimeTerrorismDrivenStealingImpulseAbstractIdeological Author:Karan Mahajan
“I've never taken a job as an actor that I wasn't 100-percent sure I wanted to do. I've never had to think about whether or not I wanted to do something, and there have always been a lot of factors to that. I don't think I'm an actor who's driven by character, to be honest.” ThinkingCharacterTakenHonestDrivenBeing Honest Author:Max Minghella
“The great tabloids were always driven by a sense of outrage, a sense of righteous indignation...and had this sensibility of, like, there are people out there that are trying to screw you - and we're going expose them for it.” PeopleTryingDrivenRighteousSensibilityScrew You Author:Lydia Polgreen
“I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on you. Me, I get bored very easily. As a writer I get bored even faster than I do in real life. I mean, I like fast cars; I've driven a lot of racecars. You need some stimulation. If I find something that seems too difficult to do, too difficult to research, or beyond your writing abilities, it's a perfect invitation to try it.” ThinkingWritingTryingMeanRealDifficultChallengesAbilityPerfectCarShameDrivenReal LifeBoredDecentInvitationsGreaseFast Car Author:Dan Simmons
“I thought the coverage of the election 2017 was disgraceful, and it was dishonest. It was ideologically driven and I think that the news agencies that did that will never return to a level of credibility ever.” ThinkingElectionDrivenCredibility Author:Bill O'Reilly
“You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money.” MomentsDrivenArguingChineseGlobalization Author:Ruth Wilson
“It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.” PeopleWritingKindOpinionFirst TimeComplicatedDrivenFeminineSouthernUnusualSouthernerSouthern Women Author:Emily Procter
“The Democrat Party and the media - primarily, the media - has created a genuine insane asylum that is the Democrat Party base. The Democrat Party base believes that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. The Democrat Party base believes that the Russians stole election from Hillary. They believe it because that's what they've been told solidly for nine months. They believe it. They have been driven insane.” BelievePartyElectionDemocratDrivenInsaneInsane Asylum Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting is so difficult and music criticism has become so content driven means that sometimes critics can go for the easy descriptors rather than an in-depth analysis.” ThinkingWritingMeanSometimesSongFightingEasyDifficultBattleMusicianFemaleCriticismCriticsDrivenSongwriting Author:Marissa Nadler
“We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of us who benefit from it economically can regret the effect it has on our own lives as well as on the lives of others, and we should not view ourselves as helpless in the face of an irresistible force, especially since we may very well be complicit. We should be prepared to help others or to leave them be to sustain their cultures if we judge that they are of intrinsic value or of value to their members.” HelpingValuesCulturePowerfulJudgingRegretCapitalismDrivenHelping OthersHelplessBe PreparedIrresistibleLives Of Others Author:David Wong
“Writers and reporters need to remind themselves they're not to be judged solely by the number of clicks or eyeballs on a given story, but there is this other value and this other important mission, and the key is balancing the two so that you stay alive long enough, whether you're an individual writer or whether you're a whole news organization, to keep doing what you're doing but that you don't get so driven by that that you forget that what you're supposed to be doing in a higher sense is informing people, is elevating the debate and not lowering it.” PeopleLongImportantEnoughValuesIndividualForgetDrivenDebateJudgedStaying Alive Author:Frank Bruni
“I don't make comparisons between any movies. I compare characters. All my actions, performances, all my films, they are driven by the characteristic. If I'm playing a cop, then I give him a particular style - I may not know that style, but as an actor I have to be responsible to do your homework and do your research and training and stuff like that.” GivingCharacterActionFilmStyleTrainingResponsibleDrivenCompareComparisonCopHomeworkBeing Responsible Author:Donnie Yen
“What's in yesterday's newspaper is today's fish-and-chip paper. If it really affects my life so badly, so personally, then I would do something about it. When it's really out of order, or something possibly detrimental to my family, or I'm driven to such a level that I know that this can be picked up and repeated again, I will just write or e-mail the newspaper editor. So, in the next day's newspaper, it might say, "Tracey Emin says this is factually incorrect."” WritingMy FamilyDriven Author:Tracey Emin
“I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanAgeSpiritualityCompassionStudyDrivenMannersCommentSecularBad Manners Author:Lauren Graham
“I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame.” ArtKidsLiteratureFameDriven Author:Lauren Graham
“The reality is that most of us are rarely, if ever, alone with our own minds and souls. Even when we do find a few minutes of quiet, we're driven to check our devices for emails, texts, etc.” MindSoulRealityQuietDriven Author:Tricia Rhodes
“I visit T-Mobile call centers. We've got about 18 major call centers in the US, and before I was CEO, I heard that no CEO had gone to physically visit them. I go in, they meet me outside, we take selfies as I stand like a piece of furniture, I tell them about how things are going - but most importantly, I say thank you and help them see that their behavior and their work has driven the culture of the company that's changed the industry and the whole world. It's a bit of a love affair.” WorldHelpingCultureChangedBehaviorAffairDrivenCeoLove AffairSaying Thank You Author:John J. Legere
“I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.” ChangedRevolutionDrivenPhysicsTechnologicalElectricityMechanicPhysicistIndustrial RevolutionThermodynamics Author:Michio Kaku
“I've always been passionate about technology. Starting tech businesses was a very natural extension. Thus, keeping up to date with latest trends is not a process driven activity for me. If one wants to innovate or even survive in today's competitive world, one must keep abreast of emerging new technologies.” WorldNaturalTechnologyPassionateDrivenEmergingNew TechnologyUp To Date Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.” ThinkingTechnologyRevolutionLaborDrivenTechnologicalBackwardsJustifiedNew TechnologyNew JobIndustrial Revolution Author:Branko Milanovic
“Sometimes politics is viewed as a boxing match. So, let's look at movies of last year. You know, you prepare for match like creed. Trump is like "Mad Max: Fury Road." We have never seen anything like this in politics. The kind of race he's going to run. I mean, look, he is winning the nomination. He doesn't prepare for debates. He doesn't run advertising. He gets millions of dollars spent against him, it has no effect, he's not running as sophisticated data driven campaign yet he is winning. As each and every day, you just don't know what you're going to get with this guy.” KindMeanSometimesRunningGuyWinningMadDrivenDebateAdvertisingBoxingSophisticatedFury Author:David Plouffe
“Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.” GivingGuyDrugSummerAddictionScaryAlcoholDrivenMedicalDrunkTeenagerSummer Camp Author:Kristen Johnston
“I think it's really important to have inter-generational relationships right; some level of communication between us silver-backed gorillas, who have been looking at and working on these problems for years, and the next generation of problem-solvers. And it's happening. So it's a very exciting time because of it. And a lot of the young people I'm working with, it's very exciting. Their enthusiasm, the revolutionary nature of what they're doing, what they're being driven by.” PeopleThinkingImportantProblemCommunicationExcitingDrivenEnthusiasmRevolutionaryNext Generation Author:Brett Leonard
“Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.” GrowthChallengesCreativityEconomyCreativeEconomicFirst TimeLogicDrivenOptimisticCapabilityEconomic GrowthEconomic Development Author:Richard Florida
“I love that about filmmaking - seeing final product and getting to see everyone else that you don't necessarily engage with on set every day and getting them to showcase their talents. Whether it's effects, music, the edit, the rhythm of a film is driven by that, so it's cool to see it come together. It's great to be standing in front of something you're genuinely proud of.” TogetherFilmTalentProudDrivenRhythmFilmmaking Author:Jai Courtney
“You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different than the present, and the present is past, as we say it. I think I, by nature, am an optimist. Maybe I was driven to escape from my childhood and to be something, create my own world or career the way I wanted it to be. And I keep doing that in very interesting ways.” ThinkingWorldDifferentPastInterestingChildhoodDrivenCuriousOptimistVery Interesting Author:Les Wexner
“Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.” PeopleHelpingSacrificeDriven Author:Joyce Johnson