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Quotes About Impulsive

It was this impulsive utterance which made Mrs Chartley say, later: 'My dear John, I marvel at your countenancing this most improper dance! When they went down the room together, with his left hand holding her right one above their heads, his right hand was clasping her waist!
~ Georgette Heyer
This was too much for Pen. 'Well I think it was a ridiculous thing to have said.' 'You see, she knows nothing of the world, Pen,' he said earnestly. 'Then too, she is impulsive! Do you know, she always makes me think of a bird?' 'A goose I suppose,' said Pen somewhat tartly.
~ Georgette Heyer
I've always believed that pastry chefs are born, not made. They're patient, methodical, tidy, and organized. It's why I stick to the savory side of the kitchen - I'm far too messy and impulsive to do all the measuring, timing, and rule-following that pastry demands.
~ Samin Nosrat
I can be very loud, when I'm being stupid.
~ Scott Lynch
I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand
~ Casper Van Dien
I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.
~ Steven Brust
People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.
~ Keith Ablow
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger. - The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism
~ Mark Twain
There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything.
~ Mary Balogh
Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Bam! That's me off the cuff. Blunt and in your face. No editing. I think it. I say it. You read it. Sometimes I don't even think it, I just say it.
~ Stephen Colbert
Goblin, that was a dumb stunt. - It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.
~ Glen Cook
It was a friendly kiss, impulsive and generous and light-hearted, but I let myself believe that it was more.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
~ Gregory Maguire
Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.
~ Jason Schwartzman
My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
~ Mathias Rust
The way that I work is I didn't go to drama school or anything like that so I have no choice but to be instinctual because I don't have a tool kit in the same way.
~ Esme Creed-Miles
Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.
~ Ritchie Blackmore
You don't think before you do, then you're shocked when you end up on the wrong side of a shit pile.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.
~ Mary Balogh
He recovers and seems to possess all his earlier faculties, with one exception: the formerly mild-mannered Gage is now something of a hellion, an impulsive shit-starter.
~ Mary Roach
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you do so, you will run right into the iteration problem, because "happy" is a right-now thing. If you place people in situations where they are feeling a lot of positive emotion, they get present-focused and impulsive.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.
~ Joseph Barbera