Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

I made Children of God because I had to make it. And with Cargo, I also felt like I had to. The impulse comes from something deep inside. Wanting to my country to be better. Because of where we are, we don't always have spaces to reflect.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

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

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.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good." But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.

In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic.

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

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

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

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

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

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

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

Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

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.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

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

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

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