Impulse Quotes

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.

Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

The great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together.
And great things are not something accidental,
but must certainly be willed.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.