Top 615 Driven Quotes

My happiness is not going to be driven solely on whether we win a Super Bowl or not.
Philip Rivers
The IT industry is driven by consumer demand.
Renee James
I had become complacent in WWE when I got released in 2014. I had become unmotivated. I wasn’t driven. I was out of shape and just not focussed.
Jinder Mahal
Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.
John Shadegg
The migration to more of a developer-powered economy is actually truer to our vision, which is a platform for user-generated content driven by our community.
David Baszucki
The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Sue Townsend
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
Ruth Rendell
The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.
Evan Osnos
If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.
Alex Ferguson
If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron.
Michael Owen
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That’s a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.
Rhiannon Giddens
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that’s less divisive. Even if songs aren’t overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
Conor Oberst
With ‘J’, at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn’t reneging on it; I just didn’t want to do it.
Howard Jacobson
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have to feed my soul, and keep feeling like an artist and keep being challenged.
Nina Dobrev
Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
Yuri Milner
Sometimes I’ll go without writing for a while and I’ll start to be driven nuts. I start doubting my writing ability. So I’ll sit down and a dozen songs will pop out. It’s fun.
Kim Shattuck
American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.
Chris Murphy
The American economy is driven and maintained by the ex

The American economy is driven and maintained by the exceptionalism of the women and men who make up our workforce; we must do everything we can to protect them.
Jeff Van Drew
Corporate share prices should not be driven by political tax games. Profits, not Washington shenanigans, should be the mother’s milk of stocks. And this shouldn’t be a partisan political issue.
Lawrence Kudlow
The problems with kids having short attention spans is driven by entertainment, reset buttons on games, games having to do with getting somewhere and heads blowing up. Everything is ‘cut to the chase, cut to the chase.’
Bill Cosby
I’m very driven, and I always have been. So I’d like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
Gareth Gates
Our 2015 financial performance will continue to be driven by our Home Robot business. Home Robot revenue is expected to grow 10% to 12% in 2015 and comprise 90% of total company revenue.
Colin Angle
Manhattan is so tailored. It’s driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.
Noah Baumbach
The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I’ve driven Harleys, and I think in ‘Savage Seven’ I drove an Indian, but – I really love Triumph.
Larry Bishop
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
Freeman Dyson
Films of stars as well non stars are working at the box office. People look out for content driven films.
Jeetendra
Most of my films have been very character driven.
Rana Daggubati
In the same way that you’re driven in your business to keep innovating – Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation – think about doing that in philanthropy.
Pierre Omidyar
I’m as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead
The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.
Joshua Foer
I’ve always had a big voice, but I’m very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that – when it’s necessary and plot driven – as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate.
Lindsay Mendez
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.
Ellen Goodman
I was a very driven young person.
Rutina Wesley
I’ve been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
Heather Graham
I’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.
Mario Andretti
I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I’m doing is driven toward finding or writing songs and putting out hit songs that drive people coming to see me live. Because, at the end of the day, that’s what I enjoy the most.
Luke Bryan
We’re all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can’t. Well, there’s also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.
Janet Jackson
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it’s at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz
My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.
Kid Rock
Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted – not so much.
Cathy Engelbert
Well, I think it’s important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films like ‘Apocalypse Now,’ which is a very mood driven film. It’s a magnetic force that’s pulling them through.
Panos Cosmatos
I would make the movie industry more like the television industry. TV is more material driven. In TV, you can break new stars. TV can take more chances.
Stephen Chbosky
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden
I’ve always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.
Aldous Harding
The confidence is really driven by the woman – whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending – but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
Fredric Jameson
The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.
Trudie Styler
Banksy’s a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.
Ben Eine
I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young

I’m motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.
Christie Hefner
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Campbell Brown
I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
Bruce Catton
Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it’s because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.
Jon Ronson
A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that’s the point driven home by Romney’s selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.
Mark McKinnon
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion – by wind.
Hermann von Helmholtz
I don’t like flying at the best of times. And as I get older, I like it less and less. I don’t much like driving, either. I prefer to be driven. And, when I’m in London, I don’t even like walking on the street. I can never get used to looking the right way when I cross the street.
Christopher Walken
If a car hasn’t been driven for a long time and you take it out in the summer, adding some coolant will prevent the radiator from overheating.
Edd China