Quotes About Impulse

That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house!

but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day.

I feel a sin coming on.

y yo siento el impulso irresistible de acercármele y, más amargo y doloroso aún, el impulso de seguir[la], (...) nace en mí como un anhelo y un mandato.

This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.* We are willing to take an irrationally large discount to get a reward now instead of waiting for a bigger reward later.

When we make in-the-moment decisions (and don't ponder the past or future), we are more likely to be irrational and impulsive.* This tendency we all have to favor our present-self at the expense of our future-self is called temporal discounting.

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.

I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.

She did not plan; she merely let herself go, and the overwhelming life in her did the rest.

When I want something bad enough, common sense tells me to go and take it--and not get caught.

Benjamin felt himself on the verge of a proposal--with an effort he choked back the impulse. You're just the romantic age, she continued--fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is--oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.

In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.

Tens vontade de comprar O que vês só porque o viste. Só a tenho de chorar Porque só compro o ser triste.

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza. Es como cuando echas a andar: si te pones a mirarte los pies y a decir «ahora, el derecho; luego, el izquierdo, etc.», lo más seguro es que pegues un tropezón o que acabes parándote.

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

I dropped chemistry because there was a cute boy, and I figured out if I dropped chemistry, I would be in his drama class.

I say things I shouldn't and I can't stop myself. It's called no filter.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.