Impulse Quotes - Page 2

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

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

When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there

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

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

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

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

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

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.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.