Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler 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
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge 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
Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear 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
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
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
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray 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
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their… — Peter D. Kramer Copy Share Image
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. — Statius Copy Share Image
“Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.” — Molly Friedenfeld Copy Share Image
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents… — Alexandra Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be… — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees,… — Milton Avery Copy Share Image
