Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self… — Yang Gui-ja Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,… — Johann Joachim Becher Copy Share Image
As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before,… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I really don't know why people have so much trouble now writing about religious faith. It is true that clichés can override… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility… — Joel-Peter Witkin Copy Share Image
I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
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