Quotes About Impulse

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Generally, successful fads have some kind of play value, like the Frisbee, Slinky, Silly Putty, my Wallwalker. They're generally inexpensive items, impulse items. They tend to be rather useless items, too. They provide a few minutes of amusement.

See that's the thing about men and sex. Thinking doesn't usually enter into it - Luther That explains so much - Grace

Entrego-me cegamente ao impulso que me arrasta.

As it so often does, an impulsive, daring suddenly - and too late - seemed seriously flawed in its conception and its inability to be retracted.

Perché l'impulso del solo appetito è schiavitù, e l'obbedienza alla legge che noi stessi ci siamo dati è libertà.

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

Something in her brain that still remained calm told her that she was doing a very foolish thing indeed.

Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.

Father: And when anger is the boss, you get- Doon: Unintended consequences.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.

If an idea or opportunity strikes organically, I would do it.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions.