Quotes About Impulse

Let's face it: so much of what we consume is not driven by knowledge but by basic craving and impulse. The process of what we eat starts in our heads. And no one is more in our heads than a food industry that spends billions of dollars in marketing its message in every means possible.

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you're starving hungry and craving stuff. You'll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn't eat.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

Stealing was a rush to me, more about the feeling than the thing I was stealing.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

If you're presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that's what you'll choose. If I'm presented with Snickers bars, I won't necessarily seek out kale.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.

Love of life is the primal impulse.

To his credit, he knew this was a terrible idea. To his discredit, he was doing it anyway.

I don't know anything," she said. "Except that desperation and fear make a person do really stupid things.

When you're being asked to think about the meaning of your intuitions before you act on them, maybe along the way you decide your intuitions are destructive or make no sense at all. And then you don't act on them.

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

I love buying things I wouldn't normally buy, especially cigars.

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don't make the right decisions.

There is a mammalian side to all of us; on occasion, it rears its head, snarls, makes a mess, acts the fool, howls at the moon, gives or gets a black eye.

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence.