I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat. , Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est. ]
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.
All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.
I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.
It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas. ' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.
Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.
I think initially the impetus for doing stuff yourself comes from your love of other music.
With my students I give them lots and lots of guided writing. Part of it is as simple as writing a lot but not toward anything. The mind floats. Then I help them see where the language has heat. If we do this a lot in class, students eventually relax into this writing practice and enjoy it. Even just that - writing pleasure without the anxiety of "audience" or "grade" or "success" - is a kind of impetus toward the unfamiliar.
Part of my impetus to get famous is to have access to printed matter. I love all the stuff like postcards, books, little things. I can make my own zines, but it just helps if you've got somebody behind you publishing things.
Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.
Serviceis love in action, love "made flesh"; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
