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“I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.”

People Seeing Incredibles Driven Great Work

Author:Tim Cook

“There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.”

“My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.”

Passion Worry Right Now Driven Twelve New Things Schedules My Passion Typewriters Exploding

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.”

World Mind Ideas Stories Desire Born Emotion Events Exciting Series Driven Transformed Convincing

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition

“Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.”

Men Vision Balance Lucky Driven Contentment Not Happy Happy Go Lucky

Author:Oral Roberts

“Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.”

Light Darkness Driven Light And Dark Light Dark

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.”

Knows Mind Littles Country Desire Wish Cities Return Towns Crowds Driven Noise Enjoyed Disgusting Restlessness Great Cities Vacant

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

“I've always been driven to buck the system.”

Motivation Driven Bucks

Author:Sam Walton

“Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.”

People Feels Doe Waiting Secret Buddhism Longing Driven Insecure Sermons Zen Buddhism

Author:Eugen Herrigel

“I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.”

Writing Self Problem Enjoy Behinds Self Esteem Lows Twenties Driven Enormous Esteem Performing Obsessive Low Self Esteem

Author:David Bowie

“I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.”

Children Sea Land Future Driven My Children Sail Fatherland Motherland

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.”

“Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.”

World Way Humans Self Christian Spiritual Spirit Process Christ Driven Formation Inner World Spiritual Formation

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.”

Government Past Passion Can Do Clear Focus Team Extraordinary Driven Corporations Extraordinary Things

Author:Peter Diamandis

“Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.”

Persons Self Trust Gains Organization Driven Trustworthy

Author:Simon Sinek

“I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.”

People Way Years Believe Long Important Helping Care Lost Bits Term Forget Roles Focus Planets Capitalism Profit Driven Long Term Better Life Short Term

Author:Richard Branson

“Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline.”

Needs Real Hard Seems Desire Vision Clear Hard Work Discipline Skills Built Weak Driven Settling Rooted Appearing Clear Vision Bluster

Author:Rob Brezsny

“Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.”

Return Driven Paradise Impatience

Book:The Basic Kafka

Source: The Basic Kafka

“In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.”

Needs Giving Writing Trying Purpose Careers Achieve Succeed Discovery Driven New Things Addict Purpose Driven Life Learning New Learning New Things

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Atoms are driven by consciousness. In proximity to love, they move in harmonious collaboration with other atoms. When in proximity to fear, they become disharmonious and chaotic. We choose each moment the energy that surrounds us.”

Moments Moving Energy Consciousness Driven Surround Collaboration Atoms Harmonious Chaotic Proximity

Author:Marianne Williamson

“There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.”

Life Force Wish Driven

Book:Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition

Source: Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition

“In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.”

Men Logic Mad Driven Mysticism Sane

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.”

Worry Effects Conversation Driven Insecurity Worry And Fear

Author:Zach Braff

“The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of all is that each day Christ should reign among holy men. And this happens when the devil's power has been driven out of our hearts through the expulsion of sinful foulness and when God has begun to reign within us amid the good odors of virtue. With fornication vanquished, chastity rules; with anger overcome, peace is king; with pride under foot, humility is sovereign.”

“My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.”

Has Beens Made Soul Growth Adversity Driven My Soul Knees Affliction

Book:Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney

Source: Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney

“... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.”

Care Environment Creation Pride Tasks Logic Creator Possession Driven Rhythm Manipulation Exploitation Domination Free Gifts

Author:Pope Francis

“I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.”

Moments Driven Ambitious

Author:Johnny Depp

“I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did.”

Ends Fighting Iraq Missions Driven Terrorist Tyranny Afghanistan

Author:George W. Bush

“An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.”

People Honest Talent Organization Filled Defeat Connected Driven Ethical Motivated

Author:Seth Godin

“America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.”

World Ideas Stories Dream America Father Community Poor Driven Oppressed Founding Pilgrim Beacons Small Communities

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.”

Pleasure Duty Delight Profession Driven Holiness Bondage Compulsion Piety Fear Not Fetters

Book:Morning and Evening

Source: Morning and Evening

“I've never been driven by box office.”

Office Boxes Driven Box Office

Author:Charlize Theron

“Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.”

Heart Ends Social Levels Results Disease Connections Stress Complexes Environmental Driven Lifestyle Factors Diets Smoking Multiple Deficiency End Results Heart Disease Toxins

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.”

People Ifs Want Ideas Desire Motivation Differences Impossible Failing Risk Balance Succeed Entrepreneur Profit Driven Making A Difference Taking Risks Business Ideas Desire To Change

Author:Richard Branson

“Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.”

Decision Talking Figures Driven Power Of Choice

Author:Bob Goff

“The seventh day of creation is the most eloquent and insightful as to the nature of God. From a literary perspective, the Sabbath forms the pinnacle of the story. Like the dramatic kiss of a soldier returning from war, this is the moment we’re not meant to miss. In choosing rest as the grand finale, God reveals himself as one driven by neither anxiety nor fear but one who finds gladness in both the work of creation and the creation of work.”

War Moments Stories Form Missing Creation Perspective Kissing Anxiety Soldier Driven Dramatic Insightful Eloquent Sabbath Gladness Pinnacle Finale

Author:Margaret Feinberg

“Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a missed opportunity for a society-wide push to understand and reduce our need to power the brain down for hours every day. Every hour we sleep is an hour we are not working, finding mates, or teaching our children; if sleep does not have a vital adaptive function to pay for its staggering opportunity cost, it could be ‘the greatest mistake the evolutionary process ever made’.”

“If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.”

Ifs Has Beens Comfort Passionate Driven Blanket

Author:Rob James-Collier

“I can be intolerably jealous and I think that’s what’s driven me. My ambition knows no end.”

Thinking Knows I Can Ends Ambition Driven Jealous My Ambition

Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers

“And Big Night, I think by the end, the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.”

Thinking Should Ends Moments Bigs Night Brother Balance Understood Driven Shoulders Breakfast

Author:Tony Shalhoub

“I’m very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do. If that turns you into a perfectionist then maybe I am.”

People Ifs Turns Driven Perfectionist

Author:Anna Wintour

“I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.”

Feelings Age Felt Driven Old Age Ripe

Author:Debbie Harry

“It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.”

Ifs Feels Should Funny Values Healthy Succeed Ambition Deserve Driven Genuine Income Thoughtful Blogs Blogging Bloggers

Author:Steve Pavlina

“We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.”

Humans Faces Term Profit Driven Globalization Short Term Calculations Human Faces Economic Globalization

Book:We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century

“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”

People Way Stills Running Used Hurt Sin Animal Driven Wounds Injury Get Away Running Away Drains Scapegoat Bystanders Aperture Olden Times Lowlifes

Book:The tugman's passage

Source: The tugman's passage

“[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.”

Men Individual Nations Worry Taken Drink Anxiety Financial Debt Driven Enterprise

Author:Stephen L. Richards

“To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom and with no strings attached--is a way to grant others a liberating gift.”

People Knows Way Ends Expectations Driven God Love Strings Grants Liberating God Loves Us Strings Attached No Strings Attached

Author:Mark Galli

“The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.”

Country Europe Western Driven Silver Aristocracy Gdp Western Europe

Author:Richard P. Bland

“Today's market action is driven by the slower GDP growth rate. Despite oil being higher, I think the GDP kind of overruled everything and just makes the market feel better about what the Fed is going to do, or rather not do.”

Thinking Feels Kind Today Action Growth Higher Rate Oil Driven Despite Feds Feel Better Gdp

Author:L'Wren Scott

“As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.”

World Believe Long War Together Remember Fighting Nations Sports Watches Modern Youth Embrace Driven Our Family Our World Olympics Our Thoughts

Author:Byron Katie

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