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Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly. [Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti; Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat Impetus.] -- Statius
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. -- Jill Scott
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change. -- Max Carver
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change. -- Simon Mainwaring
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' -- Mark Haddon
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great. -- George Muller
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
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
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing. -- Idina Menzel
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. -- Henri Bergson
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement. -- Martin Filler
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. -- Richard Flanagan
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations. -- Margaret Chan
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
It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might. -- Stephen Moyer
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
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. -- Thomas Kuhn
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible. -- Steven Pinker
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing. -- Jonathan Coleman
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours. -- Russell Smith
I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us. -- Rita Dove
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts. -- Jimmy Carter
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. -- Martin Filler
I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills -- Albert Bandura
Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy. -- Molly Friedenfeld
By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves... -- Edgar Cayce
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. -- Gerald Stern
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. -- Sol LeWitt
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. -- Arthur Ashe
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. -- Harri Holkeri
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. -- Frank Gaffney
The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment. -- James Morcan
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus. -- David Hume
This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out. -- Ian Holloway
All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.] -- Tacitus
It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit. -- Joy Harjo
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. -- Roger Housden
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn't. -- Jen Hatmaker
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams. -- Peter D. Kramer
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
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and hostility. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question. -- Stephen S. Roach
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. -- Norman Mailer
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.] -- Quintilian
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
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
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. -- Anais Nin
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
Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you. Born through your dreams, crystallised into form by your desires, given impetus by your expectations, then made real through your beliefs. -- Steven Redhead
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
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
What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus. -- Malcolm Gladwell
East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted. -- Steven Knight
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
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world. -- Charles A. Murray

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