“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
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
I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses,… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives.… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“...impulses are flowing through my brain - primal sparks leaping gaps - all so I can put my arms around you...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Annihilation, they say, is the product of our motives. But since the dawn of time our purpose and impulse was to destroy. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Life does not support those who fall victim to emotional impulsion, recklessness and negative behavior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Feel pity for the person who feels they must control all situations in their life and others, and must have things their… — Ron Baratono Copy Share Image
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct. — Nancy Jo Sales Copy Share Image
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of… — Henry S. Haskins Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
