Quotes About Impulse

For example, in the Marshmallow Test, a classic study conducted by Walter Mischel of Columbia University, when children were given a choice between one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later, some could wait for the larger treat and some just couldn't. Those who could wait were more likely to do better in many ways as they grew up, including pursuing their academic and personal goals with less frustration and distraction.

I don't make impulsive decisions. You are my one impulse, and yet I know in my gut that it's the right one.

He took one step forward, thinking to run after the carriage, to run mad, madder than he already was.

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

Don't put your heart out on your sleeve, When your remarks are off the cuff - Riot Act from Get Happy

We do not adopt a belief because it is true (they are all true), but because some obscure power impels us to do so. When this power leaves us, we suffer prostration and collapse, a tete-a-tete with what is left of ourselves.

Without thinking, he tugged her closer. When she

I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge)

Strong as the propensity to imitation is among civilized men, we must conceive it as an impulse of which their minds have been partially denuded. Like the far-seeing sight, the infallible hearing, the magical scent of the savage, it is a half-lost power. It was strongest in ancient times, and IS strongest in uncivilized regions.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.

Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

I hate exercising self-control.