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Compulsion Quotes

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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
Walter Gropius

Only labor which is driven by an inner urgency can possess spiritual significance.
Authors on Compulsion Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi George Carlin Ken Robinson Samuel Taylor Coleridge E. Stanley Jones Hisaye Yamamoto Albrecht Durer Joost Meerloo Susan Orlean Edna Ferber Henri Frederic Amiel Thomas Jefferson B.K.S. Iyengar Michelle Pfeiffer Hamza Yusuf Walter Jon Williams Jose Ortega y Gasset Swami Vivekananda Edith Stein Henry Hazlitt Ti West Patrick O'Brian Ludwig von Mises Karl Marx Walter Gropius Juliana Hatfield Sylvia Nasar Aeschylus Jane Porter Tom Robbins Paul Auster Kate Morton Tacitus
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We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.
Edith Stein

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Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Albrecht Durer

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There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."
Hamza Yusuf

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It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
Pawan Kalyan

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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.
Aeschylus

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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
Tacitus

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I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.
Hisaye Yamamoto

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Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
Plato

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It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
Joost Meerloo

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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
Samuel Gompers

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Government planning always involves compulsion.
Henry Hazlitt

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I don't know why I write. If I knew the answer, I probably wouldn't have to. But it is a compulsion. You don't choose it, it chooses you. And I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
Paul Auster

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Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.
Albert Einstein

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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
Edna Ferber

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Compulsion is the death of friendship.
Patrick O'Brian

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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any compulsion tries to justify itself.
Joan Didion

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A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
Sylvia Nasar

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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
Robert Green Ingersoll

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Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.
Ludwig von Mises

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When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
E. Stanley Jones

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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Walter Jon Williams

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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
Tom Robbins

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Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.
Rod Serling

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My compulsion is to create things.
Julian Schnabel

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If we become aware of its limitations and compulsions, we can transcend them.
B.K.S. Iyengar

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I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.
Ti West

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The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.
Ken Robinson

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...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.
Karl Marx

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I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.
Michelle Pfeiffer

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I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
Tennessee Williams

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Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.
Kate Morton

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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
Ambrose Bierce

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I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.
J. K. Rowling

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I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.
Juliana Hatfield

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Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
Jane Porter

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting.
George Carlin

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There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

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I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.
John Hodgman

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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
Thomas Jefferson

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The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld.
George Carlin

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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment.
Swami Vivekananda

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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
John Lancaster Spalding