Impulse Quotes
Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you.
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
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.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.
My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance.
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.
I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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!
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
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.
Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.