Sentence examples for compulsion to learn from inspiring English sources

He felt a compulsion to learn jiu-jitsu because so many bouts end up on the ground; being schooled at Gracie's specialized academy brings him closer to the first family of the Brazilian form of the martial art.

You do develop a compulsion to learn all the back story of this enigma, and you become aware of your involvement in the plot.

I observed this compulsion to learn and read on a visit to the Vulindlela Reading Club in Langa, a township right outside of Cape Town.

A competent user perhaps needs at least to "feel the pull" of certain claims, such as that tigers are striped, which she might ultimately nevertheless recognize to be mistaken (in Peacocke's 1992 phrase, they might feel a "primitive compulsion" in this regard even if it turned out to be a compulsion they need to learn to resist!).

For example, we can change how often we receive the distracting notifications that trigger our compulsion to check.

This seems to support Chowder's assertion that the compulsion to write poetry is innate, and also to refute his notion that most people who read poetry do so to learn how to write it.

Repetition compulsion, we are told by the psychoanalysts, is an attempt to solve a problem, and we will repeat it until we have learned what there is to learn.

Even if their own metaphysical beliefs have grown hazy, parents may still feel a deep compulsion to impart to their children whatever they learned in their youth.

I learned that I have a strange compulsion to try to ask robots profound questions.

Or will they see in our compulsion to store a penchant for procrastination and hoarding?

Watch out for nervousness and compulsion to move.