Jesmyn Ward

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

American Novelist

Killer Mike

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

American Musician

Shirley Henderson

It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.

Scottish Actress

Nina Turner

We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.

American Politician

Tariq Ali

Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

Pakistani Historian

Janet Frame

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

New Zealander Novelist

Shepard Fairey

The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.

American Artist

Kimberly Guilfoyle

I don't always think I am right, not by a long shot, but no one stifles me. When I care deeply about something, you are going to know.

American Critic

Henry Miller

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

American Author

Richard Shelby

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

Used when actions or processes are forcefully stopped or hindered intentionally.

Suppressing actions

Often implies a limitation of freedom or expression, typically viewed in a negative light.

Negative connotation

Can mean to interrupt something quietly or subtly, without drawing attention.

Subtle interruption

Indicates a life-threatening situation where someone's air supply is cut off.

Imminent danger

Implies physical control over another person, often in an aggressive or violent manner.

Physical control

Used when someone is deliberately trying to hide their genuine emotional response.

Hiding emotions

Associated with maintaining politeness or decorum in social situations.

Social etiquette

Reflects an internal struggle when dealing with emotions or reactions.

Inner struggle

 is that we're not allowing enough of that time. Because it's so easy to just pull out your phone and check the news or whatever. It doesn't matter. It stifles your ability to live within boredom. And boredom is important, because boredom then clicks in the creative activities. We don't allow ourselves to get bored anymore.

Tech's Impact On Young...

 these findings are not all that shocking. If you think about how the same parent could shape different children in different ways. One child might find it helpful when her mother provides structure. Her sister might find it's stifling. One child might think his parents are caring

Yuko Munakata: The...

 guys the fact that we are stifled with the most non Census laws out there that's why we can't run business this is a swimming through molasses so today today so what can you do about that you know I told you today but someone said to me words had marked me the words wear

Small-business solutions...

 These two deceptively tiny words stifle real description and honest communication. Look at them, just sitting there on this page, all smug and satisfied with their work. How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence.

The case against "good"...

 Unlike most interstellar sci-fi, Herbert's humans conquered the stars without any computers. Following an ancient war with robots, humanity has forbidden the construction of any machine “in the likeness of a human mind.” But rather than stifling their expansion,

Why should you read...

 a world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently. We do a great disservice to boys on how we raise them; we stifle the humanity of boys.

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 so that everyone knew they were a failure. Of course, these are extreme examples. But it is important to remember that when we excessively punish those who fail, we stifle innovation and business creation, the engines of economic growth in any country.

Don't fail fast -- fail...

 I don't know if it's truly possible to express in words what it's like not to be able to communicate. Your personality appears to vanish into a heavy fog and all of your emotions and desires are constricted, stifled and muted within you.

How My Mind Came Back to...

 protection, worry, responsibility for the other -- are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire. Because desire comes with a host of feelings that are not always such favorites of jealousy, possessiveness,

The secret to desire in...

 warm in cold seas now stifles her on these exposed rocks she must shade her eggs instead of keeping them warm

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