“Duckworth finds it useful to divide the mechanics of achievement into two separate dimensions: motivation and volition. Each one, she says, is… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“التخلف يولد الارادة ... الحضارة تقول ذلك ! ----------------------------------------------------- Retardation Generates Volition ... Civilization says so” — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself; it is the only thing in all creation that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly… — Judy Chu 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
There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
“If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
“...are you a person with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do… — Stephen Donaldson 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
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
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
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
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
“So, how is it that you don’t have a girlfriend?” I asked boldly. Joel shrugged. “Have you ever had a girlfriend?” There… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“...are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual… — Hugh Prather 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 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
“I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that… — Marianne Moore 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
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel 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
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
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while… — Rumi Copy Share Image
