Quotes About Impulse

men are often persuaded to new vices when properly motivated.

Last Minute: I have to buy all my presents at the last minute, she said, or I get too excited & just give them away.

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

many people in our society, including children and youth, are touch-starved. Healthy touch is not well understood. We actually have schools where tiny toddlers whose impulse is to run up and hug a classmate or teacher are told not to touch; in return, the teachers and other caregivers are not allowed to touch the children. But it's simply unhealthy for a three-or four-year-old child to go eight hours without touching or hugging or playfully wrestling with another person.

brain is organized to act and feel before we think.

Dr. Perry: It has the same effect. And other children will discover that pulling out their hair or their eyebrows gives a little bit of an opiate burst.

La capacidad de imaginarse escenarios alternativos también puede ayudar a aumentar el control de impulsos.

through the lower, not-so-smart part. This sequential processing means that the most primitive, reactive part of our brain is the first part to interpret and act on the information coming in from our senses. Bottom line: Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think.

Our brain is organized to act and feel before we think.

We need to resist the urge to do something, regardless of whether or not the proposed action is effective.

To accept desire, to surrender yourself to desire … to explore desire, to seek out gratification. It was the polar opposite of wisdom and discretion.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish and are fought by boys

In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations.

whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked as a need for advice. He had no way of recognizing the very common impulse of a husband to talk things over with his wife.

O great shamelessness, we followed

I've spent enough time in jackrabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives . . . No wonder some of them drift over the line into cheap thrills once in a while; there has to be a powerful adrenaline rush in crouching by the side of a road, waiting for the next set of headlights to come along, then streaking out of the bushes with split-second timing and making it across to the other side just inches in front of the speeding front wheels.

I gave it some thought, then decided he was probably right. There was no sense blowing everything for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.

Nigdy nie mia?em zbyt du?o czasu na zastanawianie si?, ale czu?em, ?e moje instynkty by?y s?uszne.

There are times when you can't do the sensible thing, when you can't act like a responsible adult at all; you just have to do whatever insane thing comes into your head. When bad people do it they end up murderers, when good people do it they end up heroes, and when the rest of do it we end up looking like total idiots. But when's that ever stopped us?

Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than to retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray, and the bullet would never miss.

Sólo los niños, de hecho, piensan que un deseo y su cumplimiento es todo uno: quizás es lo que da a los tiranos ese aire infantil. Alargan la mano hacia lo que no poseen. Cuando topan con la frustración, la rabieta homicida nunca está muy lejos.