Quotes About Impulse

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

I'm a big believer that media is an impulse business.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Shefrin and Statman hypothesize the existence of a split in the human psyche. One side of our personality is an internal planner with a long-term perspective, an authority who insists on decisions that weight the future more heavily than the present. The other side seeks immediate gratification. These two sides are in constant conflict.

In dieting and in stocks, it is the gut and not the head that determines the results.

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

I don't know who will join with us, but I know whom we must fight. It is the Magisterium, the Church. For all its history—and that's not long by our lives, but it's many, many of theirs—it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse. And when it can't control them, it cuts them out.

Well, good Christ, how was I supposed to know all that, Hannah? Who looks into the fine points when he's hungry? I'm eight years old and chocolate pudding happens to get me hot. All I have to do is see that deep chocolatey surface gleaming out at me from the refrigerator, and my life isn't my own.

No importa cuánto sepas, no importa cuánto pienses, no importa cuánto maquines, finjas y planees, no estás por encima del sexo. Es un juego muy arriesgado. Uno no tendría dos tercios de los problemas que tiene si no corriera el albur de la jodienda. El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations. Emotions

I do not masturbate often. Though at times I do so almost without being aware of it, actually.

Denial results in major emotional and maturational blocks. It is usually accompanied by the mechanism of projection. Because of guilt and fear, we repress the impulse or feeling, and we deny its presence within us. Instead of feeling it, we project it onto the world and those around us.

He sounded like me when I sensed there were drugs around: All I know is that if someone wants to get high, or wants to watch while I smoke his dope, I'll do it. I really will.

or unsafe sex with strangers?

Buy it." This is my sister Amy's advice in regard to everything, from a taxidermied horse head to a camouflage thong. "Just get it," she says. "You'll feel better." Eye something closely or pick it up for further inspection, and she'll move in to justify the cost. "It's not really that expensive, and, besides, won't you be getting a tax refund? Go on. Treat yourself.

Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;

Y por supuesto, siempre que hablamos de dinero rápido, arreglos provisionales y placer a corto plazo, estamos hablando de la dopamina.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

Why do you insist on taking the scooter if you know you're not going to want to use it?'The child spoke with her wet lips brushing the flesh of her mother's ear: 'I don't know what I'm going to want until when I want it.