Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” — Andy and Larry Wachowski Copy Share Image
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. — Van Wyck Brooks 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
“The president’s worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. — Patricia Churchland 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
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest… — Henry Miller 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
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
Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made… — John Stuart Mill 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 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
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
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
What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to… — Harry Chapin 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
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
“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
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
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
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Unkind words Of Small-Minded People Should Not Upset Or Depress You. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. — Donna Murphy 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
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. — Albert Einstein 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
