#impetus

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#am #audience #back #bandwidth #behind

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. ↗

— Milton Avery

#blowing #changing #colors #drama #fantasy

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued. ↗

— Thomas Kuhn

#becomes #clear #crises #feared #force

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#birth #birth control #control #education #give

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. ↗

— Malcolm X

#action #impetus #inspirational #inspirational

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#humility #impetus #motivations #prejudice #truth

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#because #get #hadn #i #impetus