"I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply."
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"I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked."
"A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought."
"Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write."
"Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led."
"You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?"
"I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women."
"The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right."
"Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven."
"A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad."
"Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself."
"... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder."
"Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas."
"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."
"I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven."
"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
"Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render."
"From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the US economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing."
"There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible."
"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."