#impetus

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. ↗

— Malcolm X

#action #impetus #inspirational #inspirational

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#humility #impetus #motivations #prejudice #truth

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

#creating #develop #directions #divergent #divided

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

#bay #cause #country #despicable #disgrace

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

#artists #direction #extreme #haven #i

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. ↗

— Beth Henley

#after #america #bank #behind #being

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#hope #i #impetus #millennium #nations

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#behind #blasphemy #diplomatic #efforts #expression

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #conceptual #conceptual art #gave #idea

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

#experience #gained #given #how #ideas