Quotes About Impulse

I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat!

You want another one? Oh, I don't know: I've already had two whole, entire Fig Newtons. Maybe I could try to muscle one more down but I don't think I - Mmmm, I am stuffed to the wrappers! They're nuts. We got an ER here. We got a three Fig Newton eater. How many did he have? What is he nuts? Doesn't he read?

People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the long-term consequences of their behaviors.

Alec Mackenzie wrote, "Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.

Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.

The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you'll eat.5

O era contradictorio, o había que redefinir el término improvisación. Siempre se piensa que improvisar es actuar sin pensar. Pero si uno hace una cosa por un impulso, o porque le da la gana, o directamente sin saber por qué, de todas maneras es uno el que la hace, y uno tiene una historia que lo ha llevado a ese punto de su vida; y entonces, lejos de no haber pensado ese acto, no podría haberlo pensado más: lo ha estado pensando cada minuto desde que nació.

What?" She gasps. "Who did you do it with? You can't go out there and pick up some random stranger. Oh no, Carrie. You didn't. You didn't pick up some guy at a bar.

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain.

If you get the urge, then write about it.

Kiss me, she told him impulsively. Right now. Like you mean it. Like you might not get another chance. He did so, on the mouth, a long kiss that caused Pinch, standing in the doorway, to gasp and mutter in dismay. She closed her eyes and leaned into the kiss. So sweet, so exciting.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

People like that don't need a reason apart from because I can. They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.

The period of time it takes a pictsie to go from normal to mad fighting mood is so tiny it can't be measured on the smallest clock.

It's amazing the things that seem a good idea at the time.

Society thinks of violent acts as manifestations of evil or immorality. We're told we have ultimate control over our own behavior, that each and every one of us has the free will to choose not to hurt another human being. But it's not just morality that guides us. Biology does as well. Our frontal lobs helps us integrate thoughts and actions. They help us weight the consequences of those actions. Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Sometimes I can't stop myself from buying things just because I see them - even when I don't really need them.

I never really sat down and decided, 'And now this is what I'm going to do.' I just do it.

If something feels right, then just do it.

Nunquam reliquiae redire: carpe omniem impremis (Never go back for seconds: take it all the first time)

I know if I weren't writing about the things I'd like to do I'd be out doing them. Including killing a whole bunch of folks