I’m naturally curious, and I’ve always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.
I had been one of the earliest social media adopters, driven by a mix of curiosity and enthusiasm for the way in which it levels borders and connects people who couldn’t really have connected otherwise.
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs… are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.
With Marathi cinema, content is king. It has always been driven by content. I am lucky that I don’t have to leave home to seek a job elsewhere. The industry is here at home.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I’ve just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It’s a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.
The fact that he didn’t get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn’t driven by that, and wasn’t dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.
Digitization and new technologies are rapidly changing all industries, forcing them to prepare for a tomorrow that is unpredictable. This also applies to the industry of container shipping, ports, and logistics, which largely has been driven by the traditional business models focused on optimizing how you move goods.
It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.
I have lots of personal feelings of my own, but at this stage in my life and career, I’m very much driven by assignment.
Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international – three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
I have felt that there’s a lot of receptiveness to female stories now. I think some of it has a little bit – a lot of it is economically driven and driven by, just, kind of studios wanting to check that box because now they know they have a woman problem that they need to solve.
You don’t have to wait for your career to take off to become a mum: that’s kind of what I want to show. Becoming a mum made me even more driven, and I think it doesn’t stop your career – it just boosts it. It makes you well-organised, and with a little bit of sacrifice, of course you can do it all.
My competition keeps me driven. My family and son and being home in Chicago keeps me humble, and my fans. They’re the reason why I’m going hard and making sure everyone knows how to say my name.
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.
I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I’ve always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
I am not – thank heavens – one of those ‘driven’ writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
Terrorism and extremism bear different names and labels. It uses diverse causes. But in each case, it is driven by distortion of religion and a misguided belief in its power to succeed.
I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.
Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.
If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
The thing that I love is human behavior – why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make – and that has to always be plot driven.
If we don’t re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges – economic, social and political – are destined to be driven to the brink, further jeopardizing the strength and competitiveness of our country and its citizens.
Obamacare has driven entitlement spending up much faster than expected.
No disrespect to county cricket but when you’re playing for England it is the ultimate, it is what has always driven me to push myself above and beyond.
Labels like ‘Chinese Science Fiction’ or ‘Western Science Fiction’ summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
I’m very driven, and I play with a lot of passion. So sometimes I’m a little too amped up because I love playing football and I’m very passionate about this game and playing for my teammates.
Throughout the history of America, we have been a nation driven by the idea of the frontier – a place where law was slim and liberty was enormous, where you could make your way in the world based on your own ambition and abilities, not fenced in by the limitations of society.
You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you’ve driven, and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn’t realize I hadn’t experienced the real version of.’
For me, I feel like I’ve always driven the same, it’s just depending on what situation that I’m in, depending on what I want to do. So, I’ll always race hard.
I’m driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
I’m not driven by the mighty dollar.
My career aspirations as an actor have always been driven foremost by the creative desire to be versatile.
Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it’s incumbent upon us to.
I don’t want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.
I don’t know what drives me, I don’t have a clue, but I’m driven more today than I ever have been.
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.
Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington… the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.
We are shallow because we are ‘mayabang,’ ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
I’m driven to go out and find new things to write about.
I don’t want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.
Music is my passion. I’ve always been musically driven and musically inclined. I play the keyboard a little bit. I love listening to music and discovering music. That’s my love, but I’m not a rapper at all.
At any one time, I’ll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it’s acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
If you’ve driven your kids to the store, and you leave them for five minutes, by far the most dangerous thing you’ve done is just put your kid in the car and driven them to the store.
I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV – your life is crazy. But that’s your career, not you.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.
It’s the water. Everything is driven by the water.
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own ‘voice,’ but I am more interested in the voices of others.
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
