It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. — Eugene Jarvis Copy Share Image
“Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic,… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
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
The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Maybe it's easier to think about dishonesty and what kind of trouble you can get into as a writer when love and… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him',… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
I'm an impulse buyer. I'd step inside a shop and buy a nice dress, just like that. Only then do I realize… — Heart Evangelista Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
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