Driven Quotations | Page 11

I call it the 10-mile-an-hour visit. I've had two sales to people who have driven by, seen the art through the window, and come in.

However, they seem to have been driven into the neighborhoods.

However, it is not all bad news as the slide was largely driven by a strong 27.3% rise in imports. While this reflects oil prices, to some extent, underlying imports are rising, which bodes well for the economy.

If Finance was convinced it was a problem -- and it was being driven by inadequacy of the tax system -- it should have been dealt with couple of years ago,

I can't wait. I've driven in Washington, D.C. I've never been to the White House, personally. I sincerely am looking forward to it.

I am very excited to have Tim join us. His character alone makes him a vital part of what we are building. He is determined, enthusiastic, driven and I believe he is already starting to bleed Orange and Brown. He gives everything he has and he isn't afraid of hard work. I'm looking forward to watching him grow into an indispensable part of this program.

I am very pleased to announce Ken's promotion to executive vice president, which reflects his outstanding leadership and performance in a very critical role for Tenneco. Ken leads our global finance organization with sound judgment, exceptional knowledge and strong experience in all areas of finance. He has successfully driven our ongoing efforts to de-leverage the company and improve financial flexibility, our number one goal for Tenneco.

I don't think Capote knew exactly what he was setting himself up for. He said later if he'd known what was going to happen, he would have driven right through the town like a bat out of hell.

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.

I'd start getting close to him, to within about two car-lengths, and it would just start chattering the tires. If I could have got in front of Kurt I feel like I could have driven off.

I don't think there's anyone out there saying, 'I want my mobile TV,' because you don't buy technology. I don't think there's a huge market, initially. Like anything, it's going to be driven by content.

I don't think that's something that you ever get past or get over, and I don't think it's something you should get past or get over. It's something you learn to deal with, but I think it's driven him to work on some things that he feels he needs to work on. And also make a push for staying that No. 2 and making a push for No. 1, whether it's at the end of this year or next year or whether it's somewhere else.

He's never even driven go-karts. He's a huge talent but he has to decide whether to choose F1 or motorcycling.

He's not driven by a desire for enrichment, and clearly the merger would not change his lifestyle in any measurable way.

He?s one of the most driven people I know. But out of the four of us in the secondary, I would consider him the clown of the group. He always has something to lighten the mood, but he knows when to change that mentality and get serious about the game.

I don't think this kind of growth can be supported by international investors. It must be driven by organic, domestic growth.

I do believe that the recent run up in gold has been almost entirely driven by speculative and investment demand as jewelry demand has fallen sharply.

Great leaders are never satisfied with current levels of performance. They are restlessly driven by possibilities and potential achievements.

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,Emblems right meet of decency does yield.

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

If high prices do continue much longer, they will certainly have a bite on GDP growth. At the moment, we are at the stage where prices are really driven by short-term factors that the market has been dealing with for the last few months.

We've seen what happened in Libya, what a disaster that's been driven by Hillary Clinton, and the disaster in Syria and almost disaster in Egypt. What a close call that's been. We're not out of the woods yet with Egypt.

In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.

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.

I'm not too in love with the word ambition, but I was driven.

Well I'm always working on constantly everything. I never take the approach that I'm doing as well as I possibly can... I always think there's more and I think if you don't have that, you are not driven to be better.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people...

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

I'm always working on lots of songs at once. For me it's very emotionally driven.

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. 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.

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.

There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate.

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!

My stories are character driven.

Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I like characters that do big things boldly and are driven by intensely personal feelings.

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

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.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

Am I (going) straight? I haven't driven in three years. My parents won't let me,

I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, 'Are you Kate Winslet?'. And I said, 'Well, yes. I am actually'. And she said, 'And you're getting the tube?' And I said, 'Yes'. And she said, 'Don't you have a big car that drives you around?' And I said, 'No'. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous.

I'm not driven by being understood.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

The market is event driven and we're looking for some events in times of turnaround. We need corporations to start spending money again and then for that to follow through to the consumer.

The market has done poorly over the recent couple of days and weeks. Three weeks ago, the fundamentals were improving and all was well with the world. Now there's depression back on Wall Street and it looks like the 'Santa Claus' rally is not going to happen. Having said that, this market is also driven by emotion.

The M&A revival is truly a global phenomenon, and it's not just driven by the developed markets like the U.S.. In parts of Europe - Germany and Central and Eastern Europe - there are areas that are not so mature.

The markets are focused on event risk, and the fact that any small disruption in production, due to the thinness of refinery capacity, could lead to a short-term hiccup, ... The market is clearly in a different zone now, being driven by momentum more than fundamentals.

The market's been driven up on the concern that gasoline supply could fall leading to the heavy demand period of the summer driving season.

The market was driven higher by the gains in the US and Japanese markets. Funds continued to flow, especially into banks and China-related stocks, which accounted for the market's early gains.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

The job cuts were well priced in. What was not in the price was the results, because the fourth-quarter result was driven by the top line as opposed to anything else.

The main difference this time is the restructuring of the domestic economy, playing down the excessive debts and other hangovers from the asset bubble of the 1980s, and those adjustments have been done. In the past we've had recoveries driven by export growth but no real adjustment in the broader economy in areas outside of exports and manufacturing.

The determination of global economic activity in recent years has been influenced importantly by capital gains on various types of assets, and the liabilities that finance them. Our forecasts and hence policy are becoming increasingly driven by asset price changes.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

For lawful power is still superior found, When long driven back, at length it stands the ground.

Then, driven by the same impulse, they kissed him--Aylss on the let cheek, Evanlyn on the right. And then they glared daggers at each other. -pg 372

The loyalty of a subscriber is driven by price. But all the service providers are going to have to buy equipment,

the market is, and has been, for the last five years driven by about the same 100 companies, but if you could see money moving down to the broader market, we've got some real values, a lot of good companies selling really cheap.

The market is being driven by a pickup in economic growth expectations,

The market is being driven by the rally in New York, but overall we have the typically thin volume for the month of December.

The market is clearly in a different zone now, being driven by momentum more than fundamentals.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

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.

Society is secretly driven by sales

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

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'm as pure as the driven slush.

Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

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.

I look for characters who are emotionally driven.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.

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.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.