Quotes About Impulse

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Here were we, drawn together by mutual rage and the impulse toward cooperation, led off into forgetfulness by the establishment of a rude rhythm.

Under all his cowardice there was a courage of cowardice [...] that would impel him to do the very thing his whole nature protested against doing and was afraid of doing.

Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

We live in a country in which words are mostly used to cover the sleeper, not to wake him up; and therefore, it seems to me, the adulation so cruelly proffered our elders has nothing to do with their achievement—which, I repeat, was mighty—but has to do with our impulse to look back on what we now imagine to have been a happier time. It is an adulation which has panic at the root.

Lust is pressing, something must be done about it.

He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

I'm a little bit too jumpy, when sometimes I should just sit back and let it unfold as it's supposed to and think about it before I jump in.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

The folly and wisdom of men starts when they stop thinking and start acting.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

I can't lose my spontaneity.

My great overall skill is spontaneity and winging it!

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

I'd like to be more spontaneous.

I'm very spontaneous.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

Being spontaneous at times is a must. Being spontaneous all the time is a crazy person.