Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Indian Novelist

Richard Eyre

I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.

British Director

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

American President

Emile Zola

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

French Novelist

Sigmund Freud

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Austrian Psychologist

Aleksander Kwasniewski

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Polish Politician

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

English Writer

Maya Angelou

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

American Poet

John Steinbeck

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

American Author

Theodore Sturgeon

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

American Writer

Used when an internal drive moves someone to act, often linked to personal goals or desires.

Internal Motivation

Suggests a sense of urgency or necessity in the action being taken.

Urgency Connotation

Involves emotional or psychological pressure that encourages action.

Emotional Force

Refers to actual physical movement or progress in a direction or path.

Physical Movement

Indicates influence from outer forces, not internal decisions or emotions.

External Forces

Denotes pushing or moving something in a specific direction, intentional or not.

Directional Impulse

 the author imagines Prometheus as a romantic hero who escapes and continues to spread empathy and knowledge. Of his protagonist, Shelley wrote, "Prometheus is the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives

The myth of Prometheus -...

 It's this thin geeky line that keeps it going. Not because it's a job, not because it's a career, but because it's a calling. It's something they feel impelled to do

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