Impulse Quotes

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

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulse.

I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

I have a suicide impulse.

The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

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

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

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

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

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.

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

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

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

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

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

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

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.

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

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

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

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

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

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

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

I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

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

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God.