Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of… — Ishmael Butler Copy Share Image
I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me,… — Trinh T. Minh-ha Copy Share Image
“If you need something desperately and find it, this is not an accident; your own craving and compulsion leads you to it.” — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story,… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
“Whatever one does in this world, he does it out of compulsion; so it is indeed our lack of understanding when we… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to… — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be… — Plato Copy Share Image
One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's… — Rafe Martin Copy Share Image
I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same… — Winthrop W. Aldrich Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch. — Hisaye Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
![“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]” quote by Dante Alighieri](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/046/dante-alighieri-590_compulsion_it-is-necessity-and-not-pleasure-that-co_3056229.jpg)
