Quotes About Impulsivity

Right," I said. "But first we need the car. And after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

We are living in a country that has taken the short view on everything. We have sold our future.

Who am I to know my own  motives. But I did foolhardy things.

Old enough to know better, but too young to care.

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I drink so much that I can barely walk...I'm a fantastic lover though, and an amazing friend. God knows I mean well.

Isn't there a danger with Tweeting, like drunk dialing? Isn't there a drunk Tweeting danger?

Obviously, when you're in your early twenties, you don't think about your decisions and their long term effects.

How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.

Tinder was like tequila—fun today, sad tomorrow

When I was 14 – 15 there was nothing to do in my life but dancing and sex. I'd go to nightclubs and dance then I'd meet someone and have sex. It was fine and easy. Nothing to do but think with my body. Like a bird I thought I was free.

He snorts more cocaine. I could pull over and roll him out the door but he's on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in.

It is surprisingly easy—but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest.

People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned. - from the Austin Road Trip story

Isabelle had traded kisses with boys as if they were pennies to be left on park benches and lost in chair cushions—meaningless.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

She was only fifteen! What is the matter with these kids today? Can't they wait to have sex until they get their driver's license and can go somewhere?

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

On average, children are growing more lonely and depressed, more angry and unruly, more nervous and prone to worry, more impulsive and aggressive.

Emotional intensity, impulsivity, unpredictability, and fear of abandonment are symptoms observable primarily by those who have an intimate relationship with the borderline.

Do it while you're young. You may never have another chance to do anything this stupid again!

So there we were shooting Jack Daniels into our veins, like what the fuck we can just drink it.

Refraining—not habitually acting out impulsively—has something to do with giving up entertainment mentality. Through refraining, we see that there's something between the arising of the craving—or the aggression or the loneliness or whatever it might be—and whatever action we take as a result. There's something there in us that we don't want to experience, and we never do experience, because we're so quick to act.