Quotes About Impulse

If you think of ADD as a basic problem with inhibition, it helps explain how ADD people get angry quicker. They don't inhibit their impulses as well as other people. They lack the little pause between impulse and action that allows most people to be able to stop and think. Treatment helps with that but it doesn't cure it completely.

Tendency to say what comes to mind without necessarily considering the timing or appropriateness of the remark

big swing its initial impulse, the fact is that its continuance is not the result of manipulation by pools or artifice by financiers, but depends upon basic conditions. And no matter who opposes it, the swing must inevitably run as far and as fast and as long as the impelling forces determine.

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Decisions based on emotions, affections, motivations are such a mistake that can victimize you, even others.

As soothing as it would be to rip off his arm and beat him with it, it would really slow things down.

I only did it,' I said, 'now this is going to be the truth, Teddy, I only did it because it seemed to be the glamorous thing to do at the time. It was my ideal of glamour.

And as a young man raised on the films of the Vietnam War, I want ammunition and alcohol and dope, I want to screw some whores and kill some Iraqi motherfuckers.

If you are dazzled by the appearance of a promised pleasure, guard yourself against being carried away by it; but let the matter wait, and allow yourself some delay. Then bring to mind both points of time: that in which you will enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you abstain.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

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

Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I drive by Baskin Robbins, and - I don't know, it's like - it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

Life's so much based on instincts and quick decisions, and people don't know what they're looking for.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

I pick my swimsuits just like I pick my women. As soon as I see it, I like it, and that's it. I get it real quick.

If someone a lot quicker than me was running past, I might have pulled his shirt.

I think that's why gamblers get so bad, being online. It makes it so easy. I don't have any online accounts, I never have.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.

When you're a young boy, you don't think; you just go for it. When you have more experience, you have to play more with your head.