Quotes About Impulse

It's hard to think about 20 to 30 years down the road. Most people want to use the money now - it's tough.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." ? Henny Youngman

Furthermore, whether instinct, response, or impulse, none of them can be random or just flopping about. Otherwise, life forms that have them would quickly be reduced to a pulsating mess. Thus, some kind of "organizing intelligence" is implicit, and which, by all available clues, is energetic.

Ever see something in a store that you gotta have? How about those rainbow suspenders you wore only once? Prevent the "wish-I-hadn't"s by asking yourself these questions: *Will I use it or wear it often? *Will I use it or wear it a couple months from now? *If I get it, will I have enough money for what I'm saving for? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you might want to think twice. If you still aren't sure, try waiting a week to see if it has the same appeal.

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.

To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point however, is to ignore self-preservation.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

the one as much as it advances that of the other. If a body impinge upon another, and by its force change the motion of the other, that body also (because of the equality of the mutual pressure) will undergo an equal change, in its own motion, towards the contrary part.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have the satisfaction of getting my own way.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

You know you are somewhat impulsive, but you have learned to control yourself. The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions - carelessness, approximation, imprecision, whether your own or others'. In such instances your dominant passion is the impatience to erase the disturbing effects of that arbitrariness or distraction, to re-establish the normal course of events.

Just give her your goddamn window seat, for the love of Christ, she's a stone cold fox, whispered the little red devil that always wants to get laid from his perch just behind my left ear.

I can't help it," I said at last, "I'm a born lever-puller.

Don't be dumb. (don't get a tattoo)

I had this urge to give Andrea a kiss!

Gerry, you peed on Weems's car!" I shrugged. It seemed like the thing to do at the time.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip.

actions and addictive behavior—have in common, perhaps more than anything else, is that they're entirely short-term.