So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He… — William James Copy Share Image
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition… — Seth Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We're trying to win business by doing a good job for the clients, as opposed to, "We think being big and universal… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“I pulled my chair up to the table and Alex sat down, following suit, unable to guard a smile from breaking onto… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.” Bahá’u’lláh” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
