Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“We find ourselves suspended between a compulsion to do too much and a wish to do nothing.” — Josh Cohen Copy Share Image
“When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid of myself. I don't understand this compulsion of mine to seek out the street and the night when it does… — Aura Estrada Copy Share Image
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to do anything I have to do, even if I want to do it. Compulsion takes the fun out… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks… — Bernard Iddings Bell Copy Share Image
Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A curse of being a writer is the compulsion to edit. Take the sign on my walking trail, for example. It reads,… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill,… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects… (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors-… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
