Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence.

The seed of all impulse is a feeling bursting to express itself in action.

The way most people use and are used by their minds gives substance to the belief that we are barely evolved apes.

Wenn wir unsere Projektionen auf andere Menschen erkennen werden wir feststellen, dass unsere Wahrnehmungen als auch unsere Einstellungen gegenüber unserer Mitwelt all jene Impulse und Ideen sind, die wir einst abgelehnt oder verdrängt haben und die trotzdem immer noch in uns schlummern.

Those who study life know less about it than those who act impulsively and live by their whims.

We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscious of the issue and our fate.' We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept on to a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived.

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

We are punctual, a stressed, marked characteristic. We need order around us, in the house, in the life, although we live by irresistible impulses, as if the order in the closets, in our papers, in our books, in our photographs, in our souvenirs, in our clothes could preserve us from chaos in our feelings, loves, in our work. Indifference to food, sobriety; but this, we admit, is the part of the war against a threatening fragility.

What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life!

What is GRACE? an individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! An elegance and divinity of one's beauty!

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Your mind is a book; God is the pen.

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

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

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

A lonely impulse of delight

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.

Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

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

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.

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

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

I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are.

I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that.

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.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

I have a suicide impulse.

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

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.