Impulse Quotes

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

I hate everything about traveling but I love to explore new locations so I wish I could snap and arrive somewhere whenever the need or impulse would arise.

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

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

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

Faith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought.

Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

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

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

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

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

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

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

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

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

I have a tendency when I feel myself getting stuck, my impulse is to go to my cupboard and find chips to eat.

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

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

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing.

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

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

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

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

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.