Quotes and Sayings About Impulse
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Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.
-- Andy Andrews -
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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
-- Angus WilsonSource : Angus Wilson (1963). “The Wild Garden: Or, Speaking of Writing”, p.149, Univ of California Press
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I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create.
-- Barbara Hepworth -
Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can
-- Cillian Murphy -
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
-- David Levithan -
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It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,
-- Deborah Harkness -
Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe.
-- Deepak Chopra -
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
-- Eugene Jarvis -
There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.
-- Fred Ward -
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
-- G. Stanley HallSource : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.365, Read Books Ltd
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I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
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Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
-- Graham Swift -
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.
-- Helene Deutsch -
Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469
-- Hilary Mantel -
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it
-- Isidore IsouSource : "Lettrisme: into the present" by University of Iowa. Museum of Art, Mandeville Art Gallery, (p. 71), 1983.
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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
-- James Ramsey UllmanSource : James Ramsey Ullman (1951). “River of the Sun”
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What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
-- James Salter