“Fortunately, suppressing an impulse doesn’t always have to decrease your dopamine—it can actually feel good. The key is the prefrontal cortex, which… — Alex Korb Copy Share Image
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse… — Peter Cooper Copy Share Image
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now they will say we, with our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition,… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in man to rise above his lower… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
