Imposing Quotes

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I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and… — Alexander McCall Smith
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes… — Zhuangzi
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an… — Alan Watts
Instead of imposing your will on every situation...focus on including everyone else, and just that little adjustment of attitude gives you the space to understand… — Wynton Marsalis
What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds… — Bruce Lee
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. — Ronald Reagan
Water reflects everything it encounters. This is so commonplace that we think water is blue, when in fact it has no color.... But the water,… — Mark Nepo
A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the… — Michael Lewis
There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual. — Jaggi Vasudev
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who… — Claude Monet
America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want… — Ronald Reagan
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his… — Federico Fellini
Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and steep fines on… — Charlotte Laws
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is… — Alfred North Whitehead
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or… — Irving Fisher
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The… — Mikhail Gorbachev
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others. — James Lee Burke
And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in… — Robert Montgomery

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