Impetus Quotes

• Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

  Milton Avery

  Nature, Drama, Wind Blowing

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• How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

  John Dewey

  Ideas, Way, Students

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Kappa Delta Pi

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• I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

  Harri Holkeri

  Thinking, Talking, Giving

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• Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Doubt

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• Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

  Max Carver

  Creating, Empathy, Community

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• The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Media, Dynamics

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2016

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• A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Jobs, Regret

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• It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.

  Jonah Hill

  Drama, Feel Good, Feelings

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

  Gena Showalter

  Believe, Years, Speak

  Gena Showalter (2013). “Beauty Awakened”, p.53, HQN Books

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• That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Water, Soul, Would Be

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• Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Grief, Fire, Doe

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• Yoga is not a new path to follow but a way to become conscious of the original impetus of life. Yoga is the movement and evolution of Life itself.

  David Frawley

  Yoga, Movement, Way

  David Frawley (1997). “Ayurveda and the Mind: The Healing of Consciousness”, p.259, Lotus Press

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• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  James Earl Jones

  New York, Army, Rights

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

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• Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.

  Jill Scott

  Hurt, Pain, Crazy

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• Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.

  William Monahan

  Guy, Ordinary, Six

  Source: collider.com

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• If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

  Julian Jaynes

  Powerful, Mind, Revolution

  Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.

  Josh Tickell

  Technology, Oil, Government

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• I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.

  Gerald Seymour

  Writing, Editors, Trying

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Running, Unique

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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• Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Iran, Oil

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

  Roger Housden

  Special, Wish, Individual

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

  Stephen S. Roach

  Lag, Serious, Wages

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• East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.

  Steven Knight

  Christian, Civilization, India

  Source: deadline.com

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