Quotes About Impulse

I think I just ate my willpower.

My motto is - if it feels good -" he grinned as he held her gaze "- then I do it.

What would it hurt to have one cup of coffee with him?

This is the problem with "long termism," a problem yoga identified more than two thousand years ago. When life's rap on the knuckles is not immediate enough to react as a deterrent, or the reward does not come fast enough to act as a spur, we tend to fell and act like children. We seek immediate gratification.

As the slap-dash sentences of a rushing critic express the hasty impatience of modern manners; so the deliberate emphasis, the slow acumen, the steady argument, the impressive narration bring before us what is now a tradition, the picture of the correct eighteenth-century gentleman, who never failed in a measured politeness, partly because it was due in propriety towards others, and partly because from his own dignity it was due most obviously to himself.

It is possible to conceive a character in which but one impulse is ever felt—in which the whole being, as with a single breeze, is carried in a single direction. The only exercise of the will in such a being is in aiding and carrying out the dictates of the single propensity. And this is something.

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.

When you're panicking you make rash decisions.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

I want the Wallwalker in the back of consumers' minds, but not actively thought about. When it returns, they'll react, 'Oh, there they are!' and they'll buy them again as impulse items.

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it.

If something evokes a strong emotional reaction in me, I need to push myself in that direction.

When you react to things, that's when you get into trouble and it's tough to completely control a split-second reaction.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

I make movies based on gut.

I just go with my gut.

I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

I basically go with whatever my gut tells me.