Imposed Quotes

410 quotes by 348 authors

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. — Naguib Mahfouz
I'm a taskmaster. I was brought up that way, and I'm sure I imposed that on my kids. — Hume Cronyn
Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed. — Karl E. Weick
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest. — Paul Arden
English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the… — David Ginola
In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and… — John Carmack
I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties… — Adolf Hitler
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want… — Tom Waits
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male… — Jonathan Lethem
By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from… — Hal Elrod
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi
You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house… — Saint Augustine
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry
Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. — Rajneesh
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes an expression of… — Erich Fromm
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty… — J. B. Priestley
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. — Caspar David Friedrich
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise… — Anthony Storr
It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to… — Gary Zukav
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is… — Wyndham Lewis

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