Quotes About Impulse

Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.

One rule holds good of most young men—whether rich or poor. They never have money for the necessaries of life, but they have always money to spare for their caprices—an anomaly which finds its explanation in their youth and in the almost frantic eagerness with which youth grasps at pleasure.

while reciprocal altruism does require a higher level of cognitive sophistication and behavioral flexibility than kin selection altruism, insofar as the altruist must be able to recognize free riders and discontinue interactions with them, too much cognitive sophistication may in the end undermine the altruistic impulse.

The men could pick up girls along that road if they promised to take them where they wanted to go, buxom, young, homely, grinning girls with missing teeth whom they could drive off the road and lie down in the wild grass with, and Yossarian did whenever he could, which was not nearly as often as Hungry Joe, who could get a jeep but couldn't drive, begged him to try.

The inner voice of intuition speaks like a flash, it is always spontaneous and unannounced.

Sex is a drug, Eleanor had told me. When sex enters into a situation, people lose all reason. They do things they would never do otherwise. These things they do may be crazy. May even be dangerous. May break their hearts, or someone else's... The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

Se conoce que lo arrastraba el ansia. Y el ansia siempre deja huella

What possessed you? Lauren demanded of Jim the next morning. He grinned. Call it an uncontrollable impulse. I call it insanity! she burst out. You can't imagine how furious he was.He called me names! I-I think he's insane. He is, Jim agreed with complacent satisfaction. He's insane about you. Mary thinks so too. Lauren rolled her eyes. You're all insane. I have to work up there with him. How am I going to do that? Jim chuckled. Very,very cautiously, he advised.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it-Judith McNaught

The strangest thing was that she was feeling very sexy. It couldn't be him; it must be the drinks. She really felt like crawling into bed with someone. She looked at the bartender. That was who she'd really like to get into bed with. The bartender. Or Carter. Or— Suddenly

It was like I wasn't thinking. I swear to God. It was like someone else was doing it. I remember I'm looking down at her just before I bring it down and I'm looking at her face . . . she's so scared . . . but it's like I had nothing to do with it. It's like I'm a million miles away.

That impulse took hold of me so powerfully, from my whole body, not by thought, that I caught myself from doing it exactly and as scarcely as you snatch yourself from jumping from a sheer height: here, with the realization that it would have frightened them still worse (to say nothing of me) and would have been still less explicable; so that I stood and looked into their eyes and loved them, and wished to God I was dead.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

te brindan la oportunidad de comportarte de manera diferente ante distintas situaciones y funcionan como un impulso que te guían hacia tus metas.

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

To start from Scratch....One must have an Itch

I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure."

people who are simultaneously challenged by a demanding cognitive task and by a temptation are more likely to yield to the temptation.

SPEAKING OF SYSTEM 1 AND SYSTEM 2 "He had an impression, but some of his impressions are illusions." "This was a pure System 1 response. She reacted to the threat before she recognized it." "This is your System 1 talking. Slow down and let your System 2 take control.

Individuals who uncritically follow their intuitions about puzzles are also prone to accept other suggestions from System 1. In particular, they are impulsive, impatient, and keen to receive immediate gratification.

Even in modern humans, System 1 takes over in emergencies and assigns total priority to self-protective actions.

The list of indications of depletion is also highly diverse: deviating from one's diet overspending on impulsive purchases reacting aggressively to provocation persisting less time in a handgrip task performing poorly in cognitive tasks and logical decision making

Damasio and his colleagues have observed that people who do not display the appropriate emotions before they decide, sometimes because of brain damage, also have an impaired ability to make good decisions.