Quotes About Impulse

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

It is desire that impels man to lose his discrimination and understanding, and thus commit wrong actions.

Think before you speak. In the heat of the moment, it's easy to say something you'll later regret.

Girls can control their temptations but not their emotions. Guys can control their emotions but not their temptations...

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

Cheating is like eating fast food. You do it, you enjoy it, and then you end up feeling like sh...

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

I want to do something spontaneous, like combust.

The other day I went to the Huddle House. I wasnt hungry, I just wanted to call some plays.

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

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.

Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?

De alguna manera el hipotálamo busca la satisfacción inmediata de una serie de necesidades sin prestar demasiada atención a las consecuencias. Es un «quiero esto y lo quiero ya».

Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing.

Self-defeating behavior occurs when we fail to learn the lessons that life tries to teach us. It represents the victory of impulse over awareness, immediate gratification over lasting satisfaction, relief over resolution. Self-defeating behavior invariably begins as an attempt to make ourselves feel better. It is a coping mechanism.

The lower reptilian brain is the "fight-or-flight" part of your brain. This region of your brain is all about acting and reacting, without a lot of thinking going on. It can also leave you frozen in a perceived crisis—the "deer-in-the-headlights" response.

The I Told You So impulse was strong. "And, while we're at it," Kevin Williamson wrote in National Review, "maybe turning your party over to Generalissimo Walter Mitty, his hideous scheming spawn, and the studio audience from Hee-Haw was not just absolutely aces as a political strategy.

trying to establish the boundary between an irresistible impulse and an impulse not resisted was like trying to determine when twilight ended and dusk began.

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

Everybody is corrupted by hotel rooms. You can't help it. It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first think you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.

I've got a wallet, it's orange. In case I wanna buy a deer. That doesn't make any sense at all.