What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
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
“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses.… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The struggle is part of the creative process, and it's very enjoyable to have the struggle. Without the struggle, there would be… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness -… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you… — David Dunn Copy Share Image
