43 Compulsion Quotes for You to Enjoy

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle

Nature Passion Seven More Compulsion Habit Causes Human Human Actions Reason Actions Desire Chance

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

Knowledge Mind Compulsion Hold Which Acquired

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. John Dos Passos

Strong Behavior Mind Men Long Invent Setting Chaos Spiders Moral Weave Web Compulsion Support Cannot Themselves Ethical

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. Karl Rahner

Freedom Maturity Every High Morality Compulsion True Like True Freedom How Doing Often Should Grow Found

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich

Attitude Good Acceptance People Somebody Believe Gifts Seem Only Compulsion Share Leads Blessings Always Ultimately North Trait American May Should Choose Whom Actually Bombing Innate

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Simone Weil

Life Needs History Imagination Fabric Indirect Crowd Compulsion Never Because Always Real Materials Influence Dynamic Social Interests Social Life Conscious

Now that I have joined Instagram, I think I'm on it less than before. Earlier, I used to be there all the time. I'm enjoying it because it's where you have complete control on what you're putting out, as you want it. I don't feel there's a compulsion to be active. Aditya Roy Kapur

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks. Alan Alda

Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. Amanda Hocking

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future. Antony Beevor

Future Time Backwards Past Crisis Security Must Lies No Idea Somehow Compulsion Through Never Idea Look Because Got Going Just Just Because Automatically In The Past Mean Muddle Muddled Notion Resemble

Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. Arca

You Feeling Out Compulsion Feel Behaviour Afterwards Ashamed Then

The compulsion of fate is bitter. Christoph Martin Wieland

Fate Bitter Compulsion

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves. Denis Villeneuve

You Sometimes Subconscious Control Ourselves Inside Compulsion Coming Dictator

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

State Compulsion Nationality Consent

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have. Jean Hanff Korelitz

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Joan Didion

Down Way Those Tries Only Compulsion Compulsive Write Share Accidentally Inexplicable Itself Any Impulse Justify Useful Who Things

There was no pretense to objectivity; 'Time' had a partisan Republican point of view, and if it was one not shared by many of its gentrified Ivy Leaguers, few felt the compulsion to quit. John Gregory Dunne

Time Few Pretense Objectivity Compulsion Point Point Of View Had Shared Partisan Felt Ivy Quit Republican View Many

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion. Jonathan Dee

Time Myself Job First Everything Compulsion Compulsive No Time Had Shared Since Most Wrote Became Conditions Trying Same Process Apartment Then Rid Full-Time Full-Time Job Novel Novelists Ever

My compulsion is to create things. Julian Schnabel

Compulsion Create Things

DeLillo has said that he no longer feels a compulsion to write long, compendious books. In his later years, Saul Bellow said something similar. DeLillo, of course, has written very long in the past, notably with the 850-page Underworld (1997), and his story has been America. Justin Cartwright

Long Past Books Later Has-Been Similar Something Compulsion Write He Written Longer Feels Course Said Been His Underworld Years Very America In The Past Story Saul

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions. Justin Prentice

Kid Compulsion Had Perfectionist Very Bunch Different Much

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens. Laurell K. Hamilton

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