Urges Quotes - Page 29

• What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

  Ravi Shankar

  Creative, Doe, Fantastic

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• Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

  Jane Jacobs

  Horse, Islands, Airports

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• The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Self, Obvious

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Uncomfortable, Seventies

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7414, Delphi Classics

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• This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

  Langston Hughes

  Art, Race, America

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.32, University of Missouri Press

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• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  Tom Stoppard

  Artist, Men, Immortality

  "Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos". www.newyorker.com. December 19, 1977.

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• Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Destiny, Goal, Ignorant

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  Maturity, People, Mature

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

  Bennett Cerf

  Independent, Tvs, Destroyed

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• Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Art, Ambition, Two

  "The Mike Wallace Interview". www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Artist, Suffering

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Sides, Feels, Bargains

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.92, Princeton University Press

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• I earnestly urge all our people to unite under the true banner of the Master, to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ so powerfully that no truly converted person could ever be aligned with these controversial concepts and procedures contrary to the Lord's plan of salvation.

  Harold B. Lee

  Jesus, People, Controversial

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• Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.

  Edgar Cayce

  Self, Firsts, Influence

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• Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.

  Carrie Underwood

  Giving, Wish, Internet

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• If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

  Henry Adams

  Ambition, Self, Making Money

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• From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.

  Howard Bloom

  War, Hate, Commitment

  "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History". Book by Howard Bloom, 1997.

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• The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Order, Mind

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• I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

  Mark McGrath

  Want, Lost, Stage

  Source: collider.com

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• I urge the media to start referring to climate skeptics as what they really are: climate assholes.

  Bill Maher

  Media, Climate, Skeptic

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• Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

  Garrison Keillor

  Calling, Neglect, Relentless

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• Get enough exercise and sleep: Sounds trivial, but it's not. You may have the urge to work 24/7, to skip the gym and to stay up late to get a few more things done. That's short-sighted. Exercise and sleep are critical to having the physical and mental energy necessary to meet a challenge.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Sleep, Exercise, Challenges

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Persistence, Night

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Cherish, Companion, Wells

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• I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Pain, Sweat, Each Day

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