Compulsion Quote by Susan Orlean

“The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.”

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Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say…

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I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

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I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird,…

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“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its…

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I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

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I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then,…

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“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.”

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching…

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Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something…

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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

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Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to…

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It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back…

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Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,…

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