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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Activities Compulsion Consists Desirable Discipline External Habits Lead Mind Rather Right Spontaneously Than Undesirable Which

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Each story presents a mystery that has to be solved in the process of writing. When I'm at work on a story, I'm completely immersed in that world and in the lives of those characters; they're utterly real to me. Then, when I've completed the story, it all just falls away. The whole compulsion to understand is over.

~Carol Windley

Topics: Away Characters Completed Compulsion Each Falls Immersed Just Lives Me Mystery Over Presents Process Real Solved Story Then Those Understand Utterly Whole Work World Writing

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I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

~Casey Neistat

Topics: Audience Compulsion Daily Daily Life Life Public Share

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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Able Compulsion Ignorance Nothing Receive Resist Science Them Truths

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The compulsion of fate is bitter.

~Christoph Martin Wieland

Topics: Bitter Compulsion Fate

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Andrew Combine Compulsion Creatures Discomfort Extreme Leap Odd Seem Spotlight Those Unstoppable Who

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I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.

~David Guterson

Topics: Because Compulsion Consider Deeply Duty Ethical Feel First Forces Inner Inspire Me Moral More Readers Responsible Second Something Stories Tell Unconscious Who Write I Feel I Write

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

~Denis Villeneuve

Topics: Coming Compulsion Control Dictator Inside Ourselves Sometimes Subconscious You

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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

~E. Stanley Jones

Topics: Begin Being Commission Compulsion Divine Feel God Machinery Out Power Pray Prayer Quietness Sense Sent Spiritual Turns World You

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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

~Edgar Mitchell

Topics: About Compulsion Consciousness Develop Dissatisfaction Global Instant Intense International Looks Moon Orientation Out People Petty Politics Something State World You

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