Compulsion Quotes

264 quotes by 201 authors

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. — Albrecht Durer
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is… — Martin Seligman
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can… — Clement Greenberg
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he… — Howard Gardner
There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family… — Walter Cronkite
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. — Alexander Pushkin
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And… — Vladimir Lenin
I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to… — Marcus Aurelius
Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights. — George Will
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it… — Harper Lee
We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so… — Alfred Hitchcock
As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would… — Tom Hodgkinson
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose… — Ivan Illich
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin… — E. Stanley Jones
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of… — Joseph Lancaster
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. — Karl Marx

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