Quotes About Resistance

Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out.

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.

Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.

What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That's why they call it rewriting.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.

Fighting evil, it's hard work.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.