Force Quotes - Page 17

• If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

  Robert Towne

  Thinking, People, Ears

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• The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

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• Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Facts, Would Be, Elements

  Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

  Richard Livingstone

  Education, Growing Up, Creative

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• Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

  Thomas Piketty

  Skills, Long, Favors

  Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.22, Harvard University Press

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• The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Men, Airports, Cities

  "Meaningful Agreement: Obama Says ‘A First Step’ Climate Deal Has Been Reached In Copenhagen" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

  Laura Miller

  War, Fighting, Journey

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• Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

  Jeremy Larner

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Plot, Stories, Conventions

  "The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot" by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, nielsenhayden.com. June 22, 2002.

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• The life we live today - the environment in which we live - is not one of security - it's one of doubt, one of suspicion, one of absolute tension - we're not a pastoral society any more. We feel around us the pressure of man's inadequacy to control his own development. The time when the great forces of nature, the stones and the rocks, were the gods, is gone.

  Reg Butler

  Men, Rocks, Doubt

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• I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

  Laurence Housman

  Believe, Love Is, Motive

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• My driving force is spirituality.

  Debra Wilson

  Spiritual, Driving, Spirituality

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• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

  Christian Wiman

  Home, Ambition, Anxiety

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• I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

  Christian Wiman

  Art, Pain, Believe

  Interview with Caitlin Mackenzie, therumpus.net. October 7, 2014.

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• People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it. Only try to keep yourself clear and don't allow that destructive force to spoil something that to you is simple, natural, and beautiful.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Beautiful, Hate, Simple

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• There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

  Christian Finnegan

  Disappointment, Blame, External Forces

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• Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

  Julie Taymor

  Artist, Essence, Important

  "Oh, girl: A Talk with Julie Taymor". Interview with Karsten Meinich, subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.

  Vincent Canby

  Air, Feelings, Christmas Card

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• There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  Important, Scales, Evidence

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• Our adaptation to the natural forces
  is a question of existence or non-existence.
  We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they
  adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves
  to nature and her laws.

  Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

  Law, Adaptation, Natural

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• You are the most powerful force in your life.

  Brian Wong

  Powerful, Most Powerful

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• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Book, Passion, Past

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• Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

  Jamie Dimon

  Needs, Faces, Size

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• If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Trust, Country, War

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• A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.

  Albert Low

  Self, Organization, Growth

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

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