The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without… — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims,… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have… — Coley Sohn Copy Share Image
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central… — Bruce D. Porter Copy Share Image
“...a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
