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Water is the driving force of all nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Writing has never been a driving force within me. -- Jeffrey Combs
I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me. -- Zachary Levi
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. -- Yitzhak Shamir
My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children. -- Manny Pacquiao
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. -- Hugh Hefner
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Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy. -- David Chang
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done. -- Thierry Henry
Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do. -- Anthony Jeselnik
My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention. -- Joyce Banda
I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force. -- Daniel Radcliffe
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion. -- Christopher Dawson
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. -- Tom Peters
I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down. -- Richard Rogers
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it. -- Morgan Freeman
The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly. -- Berkeley Breathed
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards. -- David Soul
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. -- Geraldine Brooks
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! -- Earl Nightingale
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam. -- Basmah bint Saud
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich. -- Mark Pagel
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad. -- Lemon Andersen
Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future. -- Ban Ki-moon
Curiosity urges you on-driving force. -- John Dos Passos
My driving force is spirituality. -- Debra Wilson
Water is the driving force in nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Make the driving force in your life love. -- Mehmet Oz
Activism has always been the driving force for change. -- David Swanson
Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward. -- Debasish Mridha
Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. -- Bill Phillips
Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. -- Marjane Satrapi
Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work. -- Maurice Sendak
Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope -- Jacques Diouf
If I had to choose my driving force, it would be passion. -- Anita Roddick
Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents. -- Bauvard
It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood. -- Robert Redford
Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force. -- Renee Lawless
Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force? -- Eddie Murphy
Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country. -- Payne Stewart
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. -- Jacques Delors
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. -- Albert Einstein
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. -- Susanna Kearsley
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. -- Max Weber
...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011). -- Mikkel Wallentin
If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time -- Anita Roddick
Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation. -- Frederick Seitz
...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011)." -- Mikkel Wallentin
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces. -- August Strindberg
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. -- Albert Einstein
As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy. -- Robin Sharma
If, as the scientist say, sex is such a driving force, why is so much of it nowadays found parked? -- Henny Youngman
The driving force of a nation lies in its spiritual purpose, made effective by free, tolerant but unremitting national will. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given. -- John Hurt
I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force. -- Neill Blomkamp
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality. -- Tony Robbins
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom. -- Elisabeth Elliot
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. -- Albert Einstein
It is only when you lose your wings, you really learn to fly. Its when the sense of loss, becomes the driving force. -- Mamur Mustapha
I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs. -- Ryan McGinley
The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers. -- Jerry Yang
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist? -- Eric Maisel
Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do. -- Louie Giglio
'Godfather' was very classical - the way it was shot, the style - the whole driving force of it was more classical, almost Shakespearean. -- Francis Ford Coppola
Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. -- Oscar Arias
In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation. -- Rick Scarborough
When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can. -- Ishe Smith
The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual. -- Andrew Joseph Galambos
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. -- Marjane Satrapi
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture. -- Alan D. Eames
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex. -- Napoleon Hill
I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me. -- Jack White
Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately. -- Jim Lehrer
I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing. -- Frank Lampard
Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. -- Sigmund Freud
To be just, is not enough to refrain from injustice. Once must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self interest as the driving force of society. -- Pedro Arrupe
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force. -- Rocco Buttiglione
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information. -- Peter Drucker
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected. -- Paul Auster
Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits. -- Ludwig von Mises
Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me. -- Lemmy Kilmister
Except when it comes to Mom. She is, and always has been, the driving force in this family. And sometimes that means driving us head-on, no possible change of course, into a wall. -- Ellen Hopkins
I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt... -- George Kukla
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum. -- Colleen Hanabusa
Sex is the greatest driving force on this planet. Christ, why are we living if we can't have a little fun? Sex is giving, and the more you give, the better lover you are. -- Jack LaLanne
We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it. -- Mac Anderson
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century. -- David Blunkett
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under. -- D. H. Lawrence
The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants. -- Maximilian Bircher-Benner

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