Quotes About Impulse

For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.

As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.

I get things in my head every once in a while and decide I must experience them, no matter how ridiculous.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

I'm almost completely ruled by my emotions.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

I don't understand scripts really well, but I do whatever my heart tells me.

I have a rude thought every three seconds!

You should never ever buy a car in a panic - otherwise you'll buy the first car you see without knowing what you're getting.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

I operate by the seat of my pants.

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Paul understood that the prohibition (what he called "the Law") was not the water that extinguished excessive desire, but a fuel that fed it. The problem for Paul was not desire as such, but rather its morphing into an obsessive/excessive impulse through the introduction of a law—a law that tempts us to act immorally precisely by demanding that we act morally.

We mortals can be fools, especially when mortal emotions rule over cool reason.

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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked. It's sex that disorders our normally ordered lives.

You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.

I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse

A first impulse was never a crime.

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.