#inclination

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. ↗

— George A. Smith

#conscience #inclination #listening #lives #mind

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#came #door #inclination #necessity #vice

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#each #his #inclinations #man #own

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#become #course #inclination #know #lawyer

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ↗

— James Joyce

#ink #pen #quiet #room #table

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#comedy #doctor #downstairs #early #engineer

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #despair #everything #inclination

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#act #disproportionate #happens #his #inclination

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it. ↗

— Sean Young

#big #clear #did #getting #happening