When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. — Edith Wharton 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
“I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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
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
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius Copy Share Image
You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by… — Thomas Nelson Page Copy Share Image
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky.… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things… — George Saunders 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