Quotes About Impulse

The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.

From experience we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment. But — and this is one of the lessons I tried very hard to impart in Blink — it is easy to disrupt this gift.

What is required of us is restraint and humility. We can put up barriers on bridges to make it more difficult for that momentary impulse to become permanent. We can instruct young people that the kind of reckless drinking that takes place at a fraternity party makes the task of reading others all but impossible. There are clues to making sense of a stranger.

What is required of us is restraint and humility. We can put up barriers on bridges to make it more difficult for that momentary impulse to become permanent. We can instruct young people that the kind of reckless drinking that takes place at a fraternity party makes the task of reading others all but impossible. There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention

We associate the willingness to risk great failure and the ability to climb back from catastrophe with courage, but in this, we are wrong. That is the lesson of Taleb and Niederhoffer, and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.

Wolf's first thought

Please understand I am in full rebellion against my own mind, that when I live, I live by impulse, by emotion, by white heat.

Hell is a different place for each man, or each man has his own particular hell. My descent into the inferno is a descent into the irrational level of existence, where the instincts and blind emotions are loose, where one lives by pure impulse, pure fantasy, and therefore pure madness. No, that is not the inferno.

Anaïs, you've started the sap flowing. I am not responsible for what I say or do any more.

If you have that rage to live, don't do something silly and mess up what you already have because you crave more. There is no amount of "more" that will ever satisfy. Once you are aware of this, once you are cognizant of the rage, then perhaps you can see when it leads you astray, taking over your thoughts, propelling you into a course of action you may regret.

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free...

You have to do what your heart dictates, Vivian says. Do you believe that? Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?

Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?

Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.

Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself.

It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

Allowing your puppy to drag you over to greet another dog is foolish and unsafe. Leashes modify a dog's natural posture, making them look confrontational even when they're anything but; also if your puppy were to break free from the leash, they would impulsively take off, putting themselves and others in danger!

Sometimes, even though you know something is a mistake, you can't stop yourself from going there.

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody --has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much .

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.