Best 176 quotes in «impulse quotes» category

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

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

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

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

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

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.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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