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Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results. — Phil McGraw

Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing. — Seneca.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Forbes Nash

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. — Stephen Neill

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. — Norbert Wiener

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved. — Pope John Paul II

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No public funding for abortion; it imposes a view. — Joe Biden

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. — Simone De Beauvoir

Somehow, with the passage of time, and the deadlines that life imposes, surrendering became the right thing to do — Randy Pausch

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. — Pablo Picasso

Conceit and confidence are both of them cheats; the first always imposes on itself, the second frequently deceives others too. — George Zimmerman

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes — Franklin P. Adams

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him. — Sun Tzu

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. — Pliny The Elder

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature. — Immanuel Kant

Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7] — Shirley Hazzard

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. — Benito Mussolini

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. — Robert Smithson

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy. — Gerhard Schroder

Therefore, the skillful commander imposes his will on the enemy by making the enemy come to him instead of being brought to the enemy. — Sun Tzu

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. — Vincent Van Gogh

they won't help a hurt man up from the gutter due to the obligation it imposes. — Philip K. Dick

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict. — Paul Bins, Comte De Saint-Victor

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. — E. O. Wilson

A belief imposes limitations, an understanding invites possibilities, and experience initiates transformation.
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One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. — Gustave Flaubert

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter F. Drucker

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not. — Allan Bloom

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. — Terry Pratchett

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. — Theodore Bikel

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso

Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance - or in insanity. — Erich Fromm

Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. — Gaspard Ulliel

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man? — Bert Sugar

Creativity is a higher level of thinking because it often imposes a higher cognitive load as you think "harder" via different thought processes. — Pearl Zhu

The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. When — Adam Smith

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. — Erwin Schrodinger

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. — Joseph Stalin

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian
that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. — John Dryden

This is the only boundary that nature herself imposes on us, the limitations on what we can accomplish, in space and time, with one body and one life. — David Gordon

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism. — Lawrence Weiner

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on. — Philip Roth

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. — John Maynard Smith

It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Dialogue binds me Monologue imposes upon me Soliloquy isolates me The — Edouard Leve

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. — Victor Hugo

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

What we call a brilliant thought is usually just a captivating expression which, with the help of a little truth, imposes a surprising error on us. — Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this. — Celine Dion

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it. — John Ruskin

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. — Alexander Alekhine

Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you. — Deepak Chopra

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. — Nicholas Kristof

However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. — Paulo Coelho

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities — Erik Weihenmayer

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else. — John Curran

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. — Charles De Gaulle

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. — Igor Stravinsky

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on. — Terence McKenna

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit. — Paul Brandt