Quotes of: Imposing Keyword

[The myth of the ] implies the existence of someone who decrees the ignorance of someone else. The one who is doing the decreeing defines himself and the class to which he belongs as those who know or were born to know; he thereby defines others as a...

Paulo Freire

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

Community And Growth

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

Education of a Wandering Man

. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]

The Bay of Noon

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitati...

Ken Ham

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Bernard Tschumi

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Alexander Alekhine

As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.

Rolf Harris

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it.

Secrets Clad in Light

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....

The Manticore

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

Never Change

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

Madame Bovary

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

The Second Sex

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it.

Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

Al Yankovic

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Paul Muldoon

The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random.

Robin Marantz Henig

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.

Ryan Lilly