Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 615 authors

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up… — Johan Huizinga
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because… — John Desmond Bernal
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. — Max Nordau
Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for… — Arthur Rubinstein
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an… — Evelyn Underhill
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies,… — Kay Hooper
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during… — Albert Einstein
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to… — Mark Twain
I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of… — William Godwin
I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. — Thom Gunn
When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who… — Erwin McManus
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,… — W. Somerset Maugham
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We… — Ralph Washington Sockman
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love… — Abraham Maslow
Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in… — Daniel Odier
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served… — Michael Pollan
Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In… — Deepak Chopra

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