The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This… — Ben Stewart Copy Share Image
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit,… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings,… — Anonymous 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
“Her impulse to want less was born of her own early disappointments, sure, but life would inevitably disappoint everyone, she thought. Better… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
There's always apprehension whenever I launch anything, it seems. When I launch a tour, people are always, 'Oooh, is this gonna work?'… — Mika Copy Share Image
What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The universe likes speed. Don't delay. Don't second guess. Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
You write something and there’s no reality to it. You can’t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
