Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

— Margot Fonteyn

Famous Induced quotations

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced.

Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion.

Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you.

The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

I have exercise-induced asthma.

Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from the Mossad.. with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the Western Powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.

Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.