Impulse famous quotes

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Inspirational #Obsession #Impulse

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.
-- Alfre Woodard

#Impulse

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

#Temptation #Purpose #Impulse

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

#Easy #Enough #Impulse

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
-- Angus Wilson

#Writing #Vision #Impulse

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

#Form #Impulse #Clear

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

#Hunting #Outlets #Impulse

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

#Cost #Dangerous #Impulse

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst

#Character #Impulse #Steady

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

#Theatre #Impulse #Feels

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

#Emotional #Meditation #Impulse

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

#Mind #Impulse

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,
-- Deborah Harkness

#War #Two #Impulse

Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Creativity #Impulse #Universe

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

#Moving #Creativity #Impulse

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

#Compassion #Soul #Impulse

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

#Teenager #Computer #Impulse

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
-- Fred Ward

#Creative #Impulse

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

#Struggle #Soul #Impulse

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
-- Gordon Ramsay

#Instinct #Impulse

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
-- Graham Swift

#Writing #Impulse #Get Away

I have a suicide impulse.
-- Hal Holbrook

#Suicide #Impulse

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
-- Helene Deutsch

#All The Best #Impulse #Adolescence

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Death #Ends #Impulse

If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
-- Hilary Mantel

#Joy #Degrees #Impulse

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

#Music Is #Impulse #Succession

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it
-- Isidore Isou

#Want #Impulse #Capable

Impulses are hard to come by these days.
-- Jack Levine

#These Days #Impulse

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

#Civilization #Impulse

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

#Writing #Impulse #Ultimate

Malice remains its animating impulse.
-- Janet Malcolm

#Impulse #Malice #Remains

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

#Principles #Lord #Impulse

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
-- Joan Didion

#Grieving #Impulse #Persons

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

#Men #He Man #Impulse

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
-- John C. Bogle

#Enemy #Impulse

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

#Character #Impulse

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Pages #Telling The Truth #Impulse

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
-- Juvenal

#Desire #Blind #Impulse

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

#Memories #Desire #Impulse

Planning is not my friend. Impulse is.
-- Kiersten White

#Planning #Impulse

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

#Shopping #Impulse

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
-- Max Nordau

#Creative #Impulse #Wells

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
-- Milton Sapirstein

#Assumption #Impulse #Persons

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Tendencies #Impulse

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
-- Olga Broumas

#Lying #Goal #Impulse

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
-- Oscar Wilde

#Poison #Impulse

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
-- Ovid

#Blind #Reason #Impulse

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

#Humanitarian #Impulse #Wells

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

#Selfish #Unselfish #Impulse

When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT.
-- Rhonda Byrne

#Law Of Attraction #Opportunity #Impulse

I'm really not good with impulse control.
-- Richelle Mead

#Rose #Vampire #Impulse

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
-- Robert Collier

#Giving #Vision #Impulse

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

#Narrative #Imagine #Impulse

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.
-- Rupert Everett

#Parent #Impulse

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

#Fancy #Fruition #Impulse

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

#Writing #Impulse

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

#Language #Impulse

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Fleeting #Impulse #Ability

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

#Lists #Buyers #Impulse

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

#Two #Theatre #Impulse

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

#Men #Irony #Impulse

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
-- Theodore Roethke

#Fire #Desire #Impulse

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

#Together #Done #Impulse

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

#Together #Impulse #Great Things

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
-- Virginia Postrel

#Stamps #Impulse

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.
-- Walt Disney

#Firsts #Fantasy #Impulse

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

#Enough #Currents #Impulse

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

#Teaching #Students #Impulse

"One impulse from a vernal wood
-- William Wordsworth

#Nature #Woods #Impulse

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

#Release #Impulse #Music Is

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

#Opposites #Impulse #Constructive

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.
-- Edan Lepucki

#Scary #World #Impulse

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

#Self #Moments #Impulse

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.
-- Idra Novey

#Language #Impulse #Translate

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.
-- Kareem Mortimer

#Country #Children #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.
-- Kelley Walker

#Police #Exploration #Impulse

The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.
-- Micah Perks

#Voice #Interesting #Impulse

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
-- Susan B. Anthony

#Atheist #Form #Impulse

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

#Art #Dangerous #Impulse

Revision is a good impulse to have.
-- Rigoberto Gonzalez

#Revision #Impulse

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

#Lust #Impulse #Primitive

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

#Immature #Impulse #Humans

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.
-- Stuart Franklin

#Poetic #Abstract #Impulse

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

#Media #Bigs #Impulse

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

#War #Black And White #Impulse