'driven to perform' is a correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is motivated and ambitious to do their best and excel. For example, "The CEO of the company is highly driven to perform and is constantly looking for ways to improve his team's efficiency."
Yet it soon became apparent that being driven to perform and succeed is not necessarily where high performance lies.
Whereas Lithgow was driven to perform by an eagerness to please, Hal Holbrook was motivated by a bottomless loneliness.
The theme of Eros overpowering rational self-preservation can be compelling, but Mr. Verow doesn't seem as interested in the psychology of his character as in the rough-sex rituals Todd is driven to perform.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a biologically based psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent, distressing thoughts or images and accompanying ritual behaviors or mental acts that a person is driven to perform.
His "reckless" nature is presented as an out-of-control character flaw: throughout his life, Nylen was driven to perform colossally stupid acts, large and small, including endangering his platoon through cowboy antics.
The compulsive person may be driven to perform the act not as an end in itself but as a means to produce or prevent some other situation, although he is usually aware that the two bear no logical causal relation to each other.
Similarly, a license (to drive, to perform surgery, to kill) endows its holder with a privilege to engage in the licensed activity.
"The cost of this relentless drive to perform at unrealistically high levels is a generation of kids who resemble nothing so much as trauma victims," Levine writes.
Although many of the retired actors, writers, directors, musicians, singers and dancers are in assisted care because they are sick, weak or disabled, the drive to perform still shines through.
