#inclination

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#conservative government #finish #government #guess #i

Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#holiness #inclination #beauty

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. ↗

— Robert Greene

#inclinations #societal-contribution #nature

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

#each #his #inclinations #man #own

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#adult #allowed #boy #cringe #develop

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. ↗

— Robert Huber

#chemistry #could #easily #follow #get

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ↗

— James Joyce

#ink #pen #quiet #room #table

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. ↗

— Cole Younger

#inclination #much #my time #natural #natural inclination