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Quotes About Impulsiveness

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
~ Mason Cooley
Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before you're old and wise, you have to be young and reckless.
~ Unknown
My Top 5 Exercises: 1. Jumping to conclusions 2. Flying off the handle 3. Carrying things too far 4. Dodging responsibilities 5. Pushing my Luck
~ Unknown
For Chandler it was all or nothing. Or, to hear one of his characters say it, "I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
~ Unknown
It's really a simple rule; you drink a lot, you piss a lot. Robert Mitchum, Mitch to pals, drank a lot. He also fought a lot and screwed a lot. He also pissed a lot.
~ Unknown
The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.
~ Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.
~ Martha Wells
When one is young and on the threshold of life's long deception, rashness is all. —Françoise Sagan1
~ Unknown
There is madness in youth, but sometimes a god inspires it.
~ Mary Renault
He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
~ Matthew Henry
She hadn't planned on having another beer, but then...when did she ever plan to drink another one? They usually just followed one after the other like stepping stones set into a stream, and she hopped along them one at a time until she lost her balance and fell into the drink.
~ Megan Hart
Cu neputin?? de spus de ce tr?iesc pe lume unii oameni, care m?nânc? pe apucate, beau pe apucate, dorm pe apucate È™i plodesc pe apucate, niciodat? cu un gând pentru ziua de mâine, niciodat? cu o strângere de inim? pentru ziua de ieri.
~ Unknown
those stupid tears to well again. You're being ridiculous, you know that, don't you? You just met this guy. He can't possibly mean that much to you already. But he did! He did. She knew both her mother and Lark had been right to caution her against jumping into anything, but where Sam was concerned, Amy could no more stop
~ Unknown
Porque eres demasiado entusiasta para tener la paciencia necesario -me contestó con ligereza-. Eres demasiado orgulloso para escuchar como es debido. Y eres demasiado listo. Eso es lo peor
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It is a trap for a man to dedicate something rashly, only later to reconsider his vows.
~ Proverbs 20:25