I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“It is just as useless to think constantly out of compulsion as it is to refuse to put down a hammer that… — Ryan Kurczak Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
“Women, Elena believed, appealed to men in direct proportion to their vacuousness. The male had an overwhelming compulsion to teach, to mold… — Joyce Haber 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
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
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
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
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the… — Plato 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
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn 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
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
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used,… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
The state is a force incarnate. Worse, it is the silly parading of force. It never seeks to prevail by persuasion. Whenever… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
I was completely swept along with my own compulsion. I don't know how else to put it. It didn't satisfy me completely,… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
