Impulse Quotes - Page 4

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

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

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

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse.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

In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic.

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

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

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

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

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

Revision is a good impulse to have.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart.

There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

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

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