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• I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Persistence

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• Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

  Quintilian

  Teaching, Quality, Students

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• When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

  Steven Kotler

  Motivation, Mastery, Alternatives

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• Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith

  Gautama Buddha

  Religious, Sleep, Nurse

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• The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Motivational, Happiness, Real

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2011). “Christianizing the Social Order”, p.248, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

  Lee Kelly

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

  Aristotle

  Science, Physicians, Use

  Politics VII.ii

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• The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world.

  William Moulton Marston

  Strong, Children, Self

  "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics". The American Scholar, Volume 13, No. 1 (p. 40), 1943.

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• "I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

  Robert Menzies

  Pay, Virtue, Taxes

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• Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Motivation, Should Have, Giving

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook L", L 24), (1793-1796).

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• As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

  Will Shortz

  Space, Empty, Natural

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• Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It is performed on the battlefield, in our daily tasks, in the marketplace, the factories, at school, in the offices, and in the halls and corridors of government.... But only when one truly gives of himself and without compulsion.

  James Michael

  Kindness, School, Love Is

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• To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

  Michelle Huneven

  Love Is, Issues, Finding Love

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• We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hysteria, Artistic Creation, May

  Sigmund Freud (2009). “Totem and Taboo”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Obsession, Curse, I Can

  "Juliana Hatfield on life after the spotlight fades". www.today.com. September 16, 2008.

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• Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Motivation, Stuff, This Life

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• Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Yield, Venus, Seduction

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• What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

  Epictetus

  Freedom, Men, Restraint

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.345

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• 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

  Home, Writing, School

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• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  Zola Jesus

  Children, Emotional, Voice

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• Compulsion is the death of friendship.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.78, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Life, Intelligent, Essence

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• I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Stills, Ifs

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• Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

  John Ford

  Spring, Tree, Growth

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