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

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Skills, Doubt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of the curves of the winds which as they strike against these projections, being forced to preserve their first impetus bend their straight course towards the sky with divers revolutions, at the beginning of which the birds come to a stop with their wings open, receiving underneath themselves the continual buffetings of the reflex courses of the winds.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ocean, Mean, Science

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• All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish.
  [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]

  Tacitus

  Business, Firsts, Inconsiderate

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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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• 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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• By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.

  Edgar Cayce

  Soulmate, Individual, Mates

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• Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

  Adolf Hitler

  Faith, Respect, Religious

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has been the lever by which presidents and other national officials have bolstered the power of the state in the face of tenacious popular resistance.

  Bruce D. Porter

  War, Government, America

  Bruce D. Porter (1994). “War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics”

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• There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

  Fred Rogers

  Pain, Wrestling, Growth

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

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• I have in this War a burning private grudge — which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Inspiration, Light

  Letter to his son Michael Tolkien on June 09, 1941. "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien", 1981.

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• Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Real, Years

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  Gary Hamel

  Uplifting, Accomplishment, Purpose

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