#stifle

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#been #best #could #enough #everywhere

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#american people #any #believe #cannot #constitution

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#clear #conscience #delicate #easy #impossible

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. ↗

— Ross Perot

#earth #going #honest #i #make

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#end #exists #journey #moreover #only

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#clear #create #creativity #design #fashion-designer

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#must #stifle #themselves #try #ugly

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#because #free #i #i love #love

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#gloomy #go #grief #him #himself