Impulse Quotes

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

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

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

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

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

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

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

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

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there

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.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

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

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

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.

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.

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did.

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

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.