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