Compulsion Quotes

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Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things… — William Bernbach
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion. — Duke Ellington
Political controls in the sense that we think of bureaus or departments of government can never ope to produce collaboration between groups in the inner… — William O. Douglas
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an… — Eckhart Tolle
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the… — H. L. Mencken
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about… — Edgar Mitchell
You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm. — Sonam Kapoor
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical… — James Stephens
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap… — Craig Brown
The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry,… — Greg Fitzsimmons
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had… — Jonathan Dee
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more… — Xenophon
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent… — Auberon Herbert
Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no… — Lionel Murphy
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. — Rem Koolhaas
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion
Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so… — Rabindranath Tagore
A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy… — Andrew Matthews

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