#driven

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. ↗

— William Frederick Book

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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't affect the conversations I have in my head about life, and worries and fears and insecurities. ↗

— Zach Braff

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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities. ↗

— Zach Braff

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Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. ↗

— Lee Child

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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

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Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story. ↗

— John Irving

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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

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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

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