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
I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch. — Hisaye Yamamoto Copy Share Image
If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“It’s not the sweet, tender kind of love I always dreamed of, but it’s love. Dark, twisted, and obsessive, it’s both a… — Anna Zaires Copy Share Image
“Natural abilities do not respond well to compulsion; when Nature is in opposition, labour is fruitless.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it,… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“compulsion to direct the attention of others is one of the first cognitive traits that emerge during childhood development that is truly… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong to be possessive but it is not good to have obsession for something.Obsession is repetitive thoughts which resembles… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that… — Eknath Easwaran 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
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
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg 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
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith… — Martin Luther 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
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato Copy Share Image
No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
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
“When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.” — Eckhart Tolle 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
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