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Quotes About Impulsive

People do incredibly stupid things when they are frightened
~ Kirsten Beyer, Protectors
Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
~ Veronica Roth, Insurgent
And even to me, that sounded like a stupid thing to do.
~ Martha Wells
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
~ Honore de Balzac
If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Reince Priebus, getting ready to shift over from the RNC to the White House, noted, with alarm, how often Trump offered people jobs on the spot, many of whom he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand.
~ Michael Wolff
I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.
~ Michelle Williams
She felt like jumping in five directions at once.
~ Unknown
Pure philosophy is not for the impulsive souls. People who are still offended by simple words or a finger pointed at them.
~ Unknown
In his classic work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1841, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay argued that people "go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."1 People in crowds often act in thoughtless ways—shouting profanities, destroying property, throwing bricks, threatening others.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.
~ Nick Cave
Nie mo?emy traktowa? czynu kobiety jako w pe?ni ?wiadomego - odezwa? si? znowu Frommer. - Psychologia kobieca udowodni?a, ?e kobieta jest jednocze?nie i podmiotem, i przedmiotem, wi?c jej wybory mog? by? tylko w pewnej cz??ci ?wiadome... (...) Kobiety ze swej natury s? delikatniejsze i bardziej wra?liwe, dlatego tak ?atwo sk?aniaj? si? do czynów nieprzemy?lanych.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
If you entrust a nation's economy to an impulsive leader with no care for facts, disaster will follow.
~ Peter D. Kramer