Quotes About Impulse

Rash thinking always resulted in unsatisfying results.

Speed lacks careful thought and generates too much risk.

It's my nature. I can't help it.

desire is the killer of reason.

confidently motivated by poor judgment, I dropped in one-quarter of a Quaalude.

Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don't act on it.

With the prefrontal cortex down-regulated, most impulse control mechanisms go offline too. For people who aren't used to this combination, the results can be expensive.

The psychologist Walter Mischel captured the conflict in an agonizing choice he gave four-year-olds in a famous 1972 experiment: one marshmallow now or two marshmallows in fifteen minutes.15 Life is a never-ending gantlet of marshmallow tests, dilemmas that force us to choose between a sooner small reward and a later large reward.

Watch a movie now or pass a course later; buy a bauble now or pay the rent later; enjoy five minutes of fellatio now or an unblemished record in the history books later.

Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila makes you wasted.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

Sudden love is latest cured.

We hate so fast and we love too slow

I am naive when it comes to love, you know what I mean? I do believe in falling in love at first sight and things like that.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.