#induce

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. ↗

— Simon Raven

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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#fashion #induced #nothing

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

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Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

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Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

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You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. ↗

— Tom McCall

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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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