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A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.
John G. Lake
One's existence will be reflective of their musings. Their external life will mirror the internal drive.
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
Alexander Pushkin
Somewhere between preoccupation and forcefulness lies impetuosity.
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
G. Stanley Hall
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There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.
Tadashi Suzuki
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Great things do not just happen by impulse,
but as a succession of small things linked together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.
Richard Prince
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The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
Barbara Hepworth
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer
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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Robert Coover
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
James Ramsey Ullman
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That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.
Sanford Meisner
16.
Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.
Noel Coward
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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.
Patti Smith
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The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
Rose Macaulay
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Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
Oscar Wilde
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It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.
Andy Andrews
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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.
Bertrand Russell
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Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
Henry David Thoreau
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
Susan B. Anthony
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Igor Stravinsky
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Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.
John Arlott
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The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
Seamus Heaney
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Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.
Steve Burns
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All through my writing life I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
Paul Auster
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When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there
Rhonda Byrne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Deepak Chopra
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What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
James Salter
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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.
Jim Elliot
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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
George Santayana
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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.
Samuel Alexander
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It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
Max Nordau
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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.
Eric Hoffer
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I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
Stephen Fry
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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.
Marcus Aurelius
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Eugene Jarvis
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Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
Seamus Heaney
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TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
Ambrose Bierce
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Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.
Deepak Chopra
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Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
Franz Kafka