Impetus Quotes - Page 4

• I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, War, Believe

  Source: ctheory.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Ambition, Mean

  Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough (2005). “Greek and Roman Lives”, p.376, Courier Corporation

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mary is the sure path to our meeting with Christ. Devotion to the Mother of the Lord, when it is genuine, is always an impetus to a life guided by the spirit and values of the Gospel.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Path, Spirit

  11 Copy quote

• I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Eye, Photographer

  20 Copy quote

• Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?

  Mary Webb

  Nature, Creative, Gold

  7 Copy quote

• Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

  Statius

  Anger, Passion, Giving

  "Thebaid" by Statius, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey in "Loeb Classical Library", Vol. 207, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

  Vera Brittain

  Work, Passion, Careers

  Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Bridges, Creating

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have more questions than answers in this world as do most poets and writers. The field of memory we exist in is absolutely encompassing and is both a question and answer. It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

  12 Copy quote

• So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

  Frances Harper

  Women, Moving, Giving

  54 Copy quote

• Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  Love, Creativity, Body

  8 Copy quote

• I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Hands, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they can get them without undue personal effort, so much the better. So the executive naturally tends to promise material gain, contingent of course on his remaining in power. The impetus to personal rule is obvious.

  Felix Morley

  Effort, Promise, Majority

  4 Copy quote

• Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

  Narendra Modi

  Giving, Development, Village

  4 Copy quote

• Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every lost war may be the cause of a later resurgence. Every visitation of distress can give a new impetus to human energy. And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new rebirth.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Giving, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.320, eKitap Projesi

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I definitely prefer directing, hands down. I'm a lazy writer and it wasn't until I got into directing that I now have a real impetus when I'm sitting at my computer. Now that I know what it's like to get to bring characters and their stories to fruition, I'm addicted. I'm a junkie. I want more.

  Coley Sohn

  Real, Character, Hands

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Past, Historical

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.

  Dan Chaon

  Mom, Writing, Everyday

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.

  Emil Artin

  Book, Giving, Suffering

  Emil Artin (1965). “Collected papers”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Lying, Artist

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Want, Moral

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspiration, Self, Expression

  4 Copy quote

• Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books, little things. I can make my own zines, but it just helps if you've got somebody behind you publishing things.

  Jack Pierson

  Book, Zines, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technique, Doctrine, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Powerful, Civilization, Gains

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.209, North Atlantic Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source