Jean Hanff Korelitz

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they've changed and grown, if indeed they have.

American Novelist

Siri Hustvedt

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

Jon Krakauer

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

American Writer

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

American Journalist

John Dos Passos

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

German Theologian

Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Greek Philosopher

Juliana Hatfield

Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.

American Musician

Jon Richardson

I've had a lot of compulsions throughout my life which mainly started as a teen around the time I was doing exams.

English Comedian

Robert Atkins

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

American Celebrity

Compulsion refers to strong, almost uncontrollable desires to act, often against one's conscious wishes.

Irresistible Urge

Expresses a deep emotional struggle, highlighting the internal battle against one's urges.

Emotional Intensity

In legal or formal scenarios, 'compulsion' implies being forced by another entity or situation, not self-imposed.

External Force

Highlights situations where an individual has no other option but to perform an action due to external pressures.

Beyond Control

In medical terms, 'compulsion' often connects with mental health, referring to repetitive behaviors driven by anxiety or distress.

Medical Context

Stresses the repetitive, undesirable nature of actions associated with compulsions in the medical or psychological sense.

Unwanted Repetition

 or confusion between the representation of divinity and divinity itself. Keeping it real, so to speak, in the relationship between the individual and the divine. However, this can be a challenge to maintain, given that the urge to visually represent and interpret the world around us is a compulsion difficult to suppress.

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 As an advertising man, I have to admire that. But the first thing is that all value is subjective. Second point is that persuasion is often better than compulsion. These funny signs that flash your speed at you, some of the new ones, on the bottom right, now actually show a smiley face or a frowny face,

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 because although her far distant ancestors came from the sea she herself is a land and she can't swim so if a wave sweeps her away she will assure the drug but nonetheless her compulsion to launch the next generation is

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 As its name suggests, obsessive compulsive disorder has two the intrusive thoughts, images, or impulses, known as obsessions, and the behavioral compulsions people engage in to relieve the anxiety the obsessions cause.

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 or slipping on that fabled banana peel. Once your ground is dragged out from under you, a world of wonder comes rushing in. I had found my territory. I was seized with a compulsion,

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 swim so if a wave sweeps her away she will assure her to drown but nonetheless her compulsion to launch the next generation is irresistible and when at length she does

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 so I'm gonna drive a few roads where I know that she has been spending kind of a lot of her time in general it's a compulsion just about anywhere but it's

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 even psychiatric syndromes like depression, anxiety, compulsions, eating disorders and self-injury. Now, I've got a confession to make.

Compulsion

A very strong desire to do something that is hard to control or stop.

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A force that makes you do something.

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A repetitive and irresistible urge to carry out certain acts.

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