Compulsion Quotes - Page 8

• When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

  Martin Luther

  Desire, Spirit, Changed

  Martin Luther (1823). “Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525”, p.60

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• There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Powerful, Party

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Successful, Opposites, Doe

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• A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.

  Nate Lowman

  Believe, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Struggle, Hands, Talking

  Speech at a conference of therapists in Basel, Switzerland, May 21, 1977.

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• The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

  Albert Einstein

  Blessing, Thinking, Temptation

  "Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'". Book by John Stachel, p. 5, 2001.

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• We all have a friend or family member who can't bear the sight of a mess. Use her obsessive compulsion to your advantage! Whisper in her ear: "I'm always impressed by how neat your house is. Can you do me a favor and help tidy this place up as the night goes on?"

  Clinton Kelly

  Night, Sight, House

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• I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Mean, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.

  Bill Orcutt

  Guitar, People, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Although Grandma's passion had led me to the power of food, not all of her recipes were healthy. I kept her gusto and the love that she put into her cuisine but ditched the ingredients that bought her a one-way ticket to arthritis, diverticulitis and a host of other inflammatory conditions. I also ditched my own addictions and compulsions around food, especially sugar.

  Kris Carr

  Grandma, Passion, Addiction

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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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

  Thinking, Healthy, Persons

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Practice, Kites

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English topography - in his work particularly - and I realized there was no compulsion to use those ugly dot-dot curlicues all over the place to designate dialogue. I began to look around, and found writers who could make transitions quite clear by the language itself. I'm a bit of a maverick now. I'm always trying to push the medium.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Always Trying, Topography, Transition

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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

  Facts, Enjoyed

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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

  George Carlin

  Dividends

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I think I'm a very lazy writer and by that I mean that I do not battle, I don't struggle too hard against it. If I have difficulties in the writing, I just go and do other things. I don't feel a compulsion to write.

  Wole Soyinka

  Struggle, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.

  Jess Walter

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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

  Writing, Answers, Knows

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.200, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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

  Writing, Knows, Massive

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's best become feasible. If you let go of your own compulsion and greed the things you are conditioned into by your culture then the more archetypal, more universally valid, more human, more compassionate, wiser activities and thoughts can come to your mind and you can dedicate yourself to them more fully.

  Rafe Martin

  Letting Go, Creating, Space

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• A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Selfish, Stories, Remember

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• Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions.

  Dorothy Day

  Brother, Believe, Army

  "The Incompatibility of Love and Violence". "Catholic Worker", May 1951.

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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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• If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.

  Guy Maddin

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Source: thequietus.com

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