Don't Force Things Quotes

#1. Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Haruki Murakami

#2. What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Ray Charles

#3. I am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.

Miguel Ruiz

#4. I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#5. Don't force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.

Pierre Ceresole

#6. Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

Rajneesh

#7. Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

Jim Butcher

#8. Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

Shirin Ebadi

#9. It's okay if we don't know how we feel in the moment. It doesn't mean we need to rush or force a decision. It doesn't mean someone else should solve it for us.

Elaina Marie

#10. I think back to my banter with Cash about sexual harassment. I don't doubt he pushes the boundaries, but never once did I get the impression he might force himself on me or make unwanted advances. I just hope to God he doesn't know that his advances aren't unwanted. I just wish they were.

M. Leighton

#11. A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Ray Mabus

#12. At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Kari Matchett

#13. Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#14. I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

Sam Childers

#15. We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.

Elizabeth May

#16. I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime, we don't want to force Jesus Christ on anybody and look that we are trying to force our beliefs onto others.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#17. If you were in class with Aristotle, he would probably come up with something like "If it is moving up, it still has some of the force of the hand on the ball." Don't listen to him. He thinks he is a Jedi.

Rhett Allain

#18. When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.

Veronica Roth

#19. I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

Bashar Al-Assad

#20. You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

Celeste Ng

#21. The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but
" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

Robert A. Heinlein

#22. I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

Michel Martelly

#23. We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does ... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

George Orwell

#24. Then why?"
"Because you expect me to fail. You expect me to do wrong. To be reckless. To ruin myself."
"Why not work to prove me wrong?"
"But don't you see? I am proving you wrong. If I choose recklessness, where is the failure? If I choose it for myself, you cannot force it upon me.

Sarah MacLean

#25. My thing is, I like to do things as long as they're relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn't any effort involved in making something happen, but I don't like to push things or force things too much.

Reggie Watts

#26. Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Tiger Woods

#27. Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I assure you I did. Deep down in your heart you don't believe in your suffering, there is a stirring of mockery, and yet you suffer - in the most genuine, honest-to-goodness way.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

Mark Shields

#29. If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Ken Kesey

#30. Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

Christopher Lasch

#31. I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Brian Ferneyhough

#32. We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things out together with the pupils

Jostein Gaarder

#33. You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.

Tony Gaskins

#34. There's my gut instinct: Don't rush. Don't force the issue. Let it play out.

Rick Yancey

#35. People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don't have to force them. And if you force them, they don't feel as good.

Cory Doctorow

#36. I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

Karen Finerman

#37. Afghanistan does have an air force: It has two C-130s. I saw one of them. It was nice, a gift from the United States. But two planes don't even make a Caribbean charter airline, let alone an air force for a country at war.

Richard Engel

#38. As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it."

Sergey Brin

#39. I'm not a huge luck guy. I think you make your own luck. I don't really believe in some other force making your own luck.

Willie Geist

#40. I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Wole Soyinka

#41. Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.

Kofi Annan

#42. I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Leo Kottke

#43. You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction and she falls through the net that has so far held her in place.

Catherine Brady

#44. Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!

Lynn G. Robbins

#45. People in uniform are not sacrosanct. They don't have all the answers. The use of force is a political decision at its core, in terms of its objectives; then the military, as the experts, must be brought in to tell you how to do it.

Richard Holbrooke

#46. It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art ...

John Arbuthnot

#47. Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Emma Goldman

#48. They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me.

Camille Claudel

#49. I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Dick Gregory

#50. I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

Sally Kirkland

#51. (a man in love speaking)
"I don't notice much of anything anymore but Marie." He laid his hand on his chest. "This force," he said, "it just does with you what it wants to do with you, makes you feel what it wants to make you feel."
"Tango

Kurt Vonnegut

#52. Don't force it; get a bigger hammer.

Arthur Bloch

#53. After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. "I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect." His words were coated with glorious boredom.

Sarah J. Maas

#54. I'm mad at your idiot coworker. Not you. I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. Why would you cheat on me?"

"Because you force me to use words like piqued," Alexander replied, deadpan.

S.H. Marr

#55. Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Oprah Winfrey

#56. Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

Leigh Steinberg

#57. When you're passionate about something, you don't need coffee or an energy drink to get you moving.

Rob Liano

#58. Don't let anyone hold you back.
Decide that you will not be held back by anyone for any reason. Life is a forward moving force!

Michelle Word Hollis

#59. You don't need to force a bird to like you if you are feeding it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#60. I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum Jr.

#61. There is another kind of belief, a second force, insecure, untrusting, a faith that is spring-fed by the things we fear in the night.

Don DeLillo

#62. There's so many things to explore in life, and if you don't have that inspiration or motivation to do it, then don't force yourself. Take that time to do whatever else you need to do. That inspiration or motivation will always come back and when it does, it's always stronger.

Chris Sharma

#63. Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Joel Osteen

#64. It's always a pleasure forcing you to do things you don't want to do." "I like it better when you force me to do things I want to do.

Tiffany Reisz

#65. Don't make excuses for your mistakes.
Don't try to please your enemies.
Don't run from your responsibilities.
Don't force your opinions on others.
Don't complain about things you can change.
Don't compare yourself to anyone.
Don't let undeserving people into your life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#66. Parents don't always like to admit that things have changed. They want the world to be exactly the way it was before their children went away on these life-changing adventures, and when the world doesn't oblige, they try to force it into the boxes they build for us.

Seanan McGuire

#67. In any case,' I added, 'I don't know that the great-niece is excluded under the Act - I only understand that she may be. In any case, there are still six months before the Act comes into force, and many things may happen before then.' " 'You mean that Auntie may die,' she said, 'but she's

Dorothy L. Sayers

#68. Layney Logan, there are two things in this world you don't need to question. One is gravity." He tilted my chin to force me to look him in the eye. The sudden intimacy shocked me. "The other is Layney Logan.

Gwen Hayes

#69. If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black ... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too ...

Gosho Aoyama

#70. If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

Michael P. Anderson

#71. There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#72. Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

David Chang

#73. I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don't bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it

Alexander McQueen

#74. We don't have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf ... I'm a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can't force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.

Jack Nicklaus

#75. It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let go of how things should be and start to see possibility based on reality. It's YOUR life, grasp the steering wheel and force yourself to pay attention to where you're going.

Wendy Keller

#76. Don't force things to happen.

Lisa Loeb

#77. People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things; they know that real power comes from surrender.

Renae A. Sauter

#78. Sometimes we have to face things, face people, face situations in life that we don't like to deal with," he said. "It can feel like everybody is out to get you. That's when you have to refuse to succumb, make people realize you are a force - but you also have to give and take in these situations.

Duff McKagan