Imposing Quotes

Instead of imposing something, let it make itself.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative order on the experience as it happens.

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares.

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesnt mean imposing a bunch of rules.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."

I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

I've always been way more attracted to playing imposing characters than the hero. I've always been more intrigued by Iago in Shakespeare than playing Romeo. That was always boring to me.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

We won't get any growth in Greece by just imposing cuts. What I would prefer is a special economic zone for Greece.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.