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Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge. — David Cottrell

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart! — Marquis De Sade

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction. — Bainbridge Colby

The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it. — James C. Collins

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time. — Anita Elberse

The most American thing you can do is to stifle dissent. — Utah Phillips

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it. — William Hazlitt

All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom. — Rachel Bloom

Rumors, even true ones, are like flames: Stifle the oxygen and they sputter and die. — Gayle Forman

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman

Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations. — Marvin Ammori

Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation. — Marvin Ammori

On Lego's
Listen, I don't want to stifle your creativity, but that thing you built there, it looks a pile of shit. — Justin Halpern

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune. — Patti Smith

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. — Jean O'Leary

Too many rules with stifle innovation. — Sergey Brin

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven? — Katherine Paterson

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent. — Karl Lagerfeld

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. — Karl Lagerfeld

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. — Claude Debussy

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process. — Frank Iero

My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stifle
the laugh welling inside.
Parker Whalen knows I'm alive. — Katie Klein

If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, you stifle your own dreams of the future. — Brandon Sanderson

If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential. — Steve Rizzo

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough. — Flannery O'Connor

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts? — Simone Weil

A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. — Confucius

Something you consider bad may bring out your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation. — Myron Scholes

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives. — William Moulton Marston

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers. — Ralph Nader

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent. — Malcolm Gladwell

When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all. — William J. Clinton

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent. — Rebecca MacKinnon

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth. — Kristi Noem

It was an act of defiance against your leaders ... Ready to stifle the truth, and for what? To be kings of their tiny world?Its ridiculous. — Veronica Roth

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding. — Lily Cole

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns. — Helen Rowland

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. — Madame De Stael

Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy. — Richard Blackaby

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. — John Stuart Mill

The things we hold inside, the nightmares we stifle, have far more power than the things we expose to the light of day. — Nalini Singh

Did you wish to offer your commiserations? I ask too sweetly. I think he's trying to stifle a smile, but I can't be sure. — E.L. James

Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I stifle a laugh. Ruby red slippers. Just like Cinderella: it always comes back to the shoes. — Victoria Van Tiem

Romantic Egoist
Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head ... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try. — Bisco Hatori

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's! — Lord Byron

Will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit. — Jim Ramstad

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. — Ulysses S. Grant

Thought, She's your wife. My mother, we buried. But he knew to stifle those words before they came — Khaled Hosseini

The appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag

We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering. — Shaun Hick

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore De Balzac

Love cannot stifle nor can it dictate. Either of those circumstances will turn a tender feeling into something ugly (Adam Ashworth). — Cynthia Wicklund

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. — John Charles Polanyi

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. — J.K. Rowling

Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day! — Nathan Haddish Mogos

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them. — Flannery O'Connor

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. — Glenn Greenwald

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them. — Gary Neville

He ignores me. Our fears are what stifle us and we're only scared of what we don't understand. — Katie McGarry

To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly. — Fennel Hudson