Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
“The president’s worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But as time goes by you learn that your impulses don’t know any more about what you really want than you do.” — Brandon Clements Copy Share Image
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices. — Kelly McGonigal 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
There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.'' Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my… — Clifford Ross Copy Share Image
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then… — Cathy Rindner Tempelsman Copy Share Image
Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“The patient is surprised by feelings she would rather not have recognized, but now it is too late: Awareness of her own… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
“The basic idea here is that for most people will power is a limited resource: if we spend lots of energy controlling… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“On the other hand I myself have impulses toward violence uneasily concealed. Especially when I look out of the window at the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“There are underwater cables that seem to emerge and interweave the various objects drifting and rotating in space. I can imagine their… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
Use your impulses to do something you love. Then you will find success by manipulating your mind in the way that success… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives. — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
