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Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
— Steven Pressfield
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
— Matthieu Ricard
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.
— Ronald Reagan
Capital dictates the fate of humanity.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Your divine design dictates your future direction.
— Aubrey Malphurs
There is no time frame that dictates when and how you'll feel what you feel. You just get to deal with hell however, and whenever, it hits you.
— Jessica Park
Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.
— Connie Kerbs
Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
— James J. Kilpatrick
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
— Omar Dorsey
You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.
— Anthony Rizzo
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
— David Landes
Our relationship with our own thoughts dictates how enjoyable all of our relationships in life will be.
— Noah Elkrief
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
— Friedrich Schiller
It takes two to tango; one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.
— Olaotan Fawehinmi
Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.
— Kelley Armstrong
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
— Adam Phillips
I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.
— James Gilmour
The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.
— Bob Menendez
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
— James Dyson
What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.
— S. Kelley Harrell
The dictates of humanity came in opposition to the law of the land, and we ignored the law.
— Levi Coffin
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.
— Naum Gabo
Although prey to the dictates of physical desire, he remained no less a romantic man, believing that the realm of women could be shrunk to one woman.
— David Foenkinos
It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful.
— Tobias Lindholm
For a man cannot change, that is to say become another person, while he continues to obey the dictates of the self which he has ceased to be.
— Marcel Proust
Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.
— Dana Gould
Your perception of events dictates your reactions to them.
— Elizabeth O'Brien
Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.
— Joe Budden
The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality
— Chuck Klosterman
The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.
— Keith Rabois
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
— Colin Powell
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
— Tahar Rahim
Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
— Samuel Johnson
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
— Grimes
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.
— Christopher Moore
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.
— Max Lucado
Increase in me that wisdom
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates. — Benjamin Franklin
Which discovers my truest interest,
Strengthen my resolution
To perform that which wisdom dictates. — Benjamin Franklin
Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.
— Grace Kelly
The way the function dictates the form ... elegant lines ... nothing extraneous ... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.
— David Mazzucchelli
For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.
— Marcel Proust
Your beginning never dictates your destnation.
— Tyler Perry
The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
— William Faulkner
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
— Herbert Hoover
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
— Marcel Proust
It is [every woman's] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.
— Lillie Langtry
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
— Agatha Christie
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
— Marguerite Gardiner
One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think ...
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
— Maria Callas
Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
— Joey Ramone
No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.
— Cornel West
How awful to have a passion so intense it dictates your every breath and yet to lack the moral backbone to pursue it. The
— James Rhodes
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.
— Mitt Romney
A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach.
— Brian Michael Good
Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
— Dawn French
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
— Pauly Shore
Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.
— Kenneth Waltz
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It
— Timothy Ferriss
Content dictates form and style.
— Stephen Sondheim
I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
— Troy Polamalu
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.
— Rafael Cruz
Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
— Yanis Varoufakis
Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.
— Johannes Brahms
Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.
— Denis McDonough
Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
— Richard Whately
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
— Francesco Clemente
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
— Confucius
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
— Paul Gauguin
I write songs about real things ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
— John Mayall
Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations.
— T.F. Hodge
Northwest adage that "the weather doesn't dictate what you do - it only dictates what you wear while you do it.
— M.D. Grayson
By far, the most disabling thing in my life is the physical environment. It dictates what I can and can't do every day.
— Stella Young
From the first day we have been fighting the wrong enemy; our common enemy is religion which dictates upon us division and partition.
— M.F. Moonzajer
You are where you are because of your thinking. Your thinking dictates your decisions. Decisions are choices.
— Andy Andrews
A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
— Ferdinand Buisson
He wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are - if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.
— Anthony Doerr
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For he who has the audacity to determine who should live and who should die no longer serves the law but dictates the law.
— Christopher Paolini
While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.
— Ben Carson
Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.
— George Clinton
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
— Robert E.Lee
What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes
— John Gay