If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without…

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions…

— Bertrand Russell

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

— Patricia Churchland

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.…

— Hans Hofmann

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

— Paul Schullery

Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses.

— Bill Bryson

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider…

— Maria Montessori

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Never act on impulse. Plan first. Think it through. Then act.

— Luc Saint-Cyr

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want…

— Willem Dafoe

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

— Thomas Hardy

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

— Jeff Bridges

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

— Helene Deutsch

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.

— Susan Moody

The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and…

— Frederic Bastiat