Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building. — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in… — Raymond Chandler 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
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
He that can swim needs not despair to fly; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I think there's a very fundamental urge to create a safe space, a home; most animals have that impulse, and humans certainly… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says. — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
