#thwarted

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work. ↗

— Brian Cox

#acting #actor #ambition #because #being

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#order #out #own #thwarted #you

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#branches #grow #instinct #just #must

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ↗

— Claude McKay

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So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. ↗

— Suze Orman

#dreams #failure #financial #good #good intentions

We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father. ↗

— Janet Reno

#boy #each #father #his #longest

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. ↗

— Juvenal

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