When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices. — Kelly McGonigal 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
“Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.” — Chelsea Scott 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
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. — David Brooks 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
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
When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow… — Lindsey Buckingham 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
“If you have one of those impulses that are pulling you, if you don’t marry it with an action within 5 seconds,… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God, grant me the serenity to accept the stupid people as they are, the courage to maintain self-control and the wisdom to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a… — Irene González Frei Copy Share Image
Passion arises from the heart, and your hearts impulse is more likely to be closer to the truth than your minds analysis. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?' — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like… — Romy Schneider Copy Share Image
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The Unkind words Of Small-Minded People Should Not Upset Or Depress You. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” — Andy and Larry Wachowski 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
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
