A Quote by Kary Mullis

I'm not driven by being understood.

Kary Mullis

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Being Driven Understood

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Kary Mullis
American - Scientist
Born: December 28, 1944

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

Patty Duke

The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

Ann Nocenti

There's so much anxiety about being understood - and being understood through what you wear.

Sheila Heti

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

Bjork

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

Kenneth Goldsmith

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

Bruce Rauner

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

Billy West

Demand alone might let a business case be created, but things driven by that will have a risk of being soulless. You need it being driven from both directions. You need the nexus between demand and creative passion that wants to make something.

Randy Pitchford

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

Kató Lomb

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

Nadine Velazquez

Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

Anita Sarkeesian

It's hard to be driven when you're being driven.

Paul Solomon

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

W. C. Fields

I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher was even a gift at all.

Jason Mitchell

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect