Impulse Quotes

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

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

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.

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

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

I'm really not good with impulse control.

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

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

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

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.

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

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

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

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

That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

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

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

It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

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