Impose Quotes

405 Impose quotes by 345 unique authors

Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind. … Once everything… — Sasha Cagen
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has… — Vimala Thakar
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly… — William James
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say… — Anne Lamott
There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals… — Stockwell Day
Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm… — Raj Patel
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act… — Thomas Sowell
If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your… — Ram Dass
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to… — Barry Goldwater
Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions. — Laozi
Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control. — Peter R. Scholtes
That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith… — Swami Vivekananda
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and… — Laozi
Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point… — Melanie Phillips
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend. — Leonard Nimoy
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that… — Peter Kropotkin
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes… — Scott Harshbarger
Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or… — Malachi Martin
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough… — Matsuo Basho
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — Guy de Maupassant
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only… — Leo Tolstoy
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way? — William Stafford
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. — Jonah Goldberg
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher… — Bruce Lee

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