drivenness

Sometimes I try to force God's hand in my "drivenness", wanting to be more like Him.

Tree Story Belinda 2008

It was my drivenness that caused my break-up with Nadezda.

Once upon a life: Toby Litt 2010

At that point I returned to writing with a drivenness I had never known.

Balance 2007

For Clinton, except for his inexplicable publicness and apparent drivenness, too, is far from being the first of our leaders to fall into this trap.

Rim Shots At History 2008

Indeed, it turns out to be precisely this kind of instinctive drivenness that Nietzsche has partly in mind when he praises

Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy Leiter, Brian 2007

Scrounging time for faith nourishment can press a doubter into drivenness—so that in our wild attempts to make the most of every minute of our time, we may lose eternity.

If I Really Believe, Why Do I Have These Doubts? Dr. Lynn Anderson 2000

I think that there's no way of understanding the complexity of this person, the magnetism he had, the drivenness of his life, the frenetic quality of the pace he lived, the politics he practiced.

Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism 1994

“The markedly driven patient who studies constantly and voices dissatisfaction with anything but perfect grades often distresses the parents who recognize the drivenness and hopelessly attempt to persuade the patient to work less and enjoy herself more” Mintz, 1983, p.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Not the wealth of excess and drivenness to prove or to power.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Dr. Cara Barker 2011

You do the things that a person must do, but you are free from that obsessive, compulsive drivenness of your own desires.

doggdot.us 2009