Alicia Keys
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once."
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Driven
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Thomas Keller
Chef, Restaurateur
"You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face."
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"Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science."
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"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."
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"The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
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"Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy."
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"I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment."
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"My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved."
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"From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people."
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"A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."
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"I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive."
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"Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear."
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"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion."
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"Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return."
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"Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven."
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"Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy."
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"Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven."
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"If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for."
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"For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself."
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"Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them."
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"Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness."
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"The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity."
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