Impulse Quotes
827 quotes by 629 authors
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If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.
— Kristin Kreuk
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When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem,…
— Sandra Magsamen
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The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government…
— Peter Hessler
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The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses are probably going…
— Jeff Yass
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Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act
— Gil Fronsdal
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Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.
— William Westney
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A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the…
— David O. McKay
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One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has…
— Robert Bly
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Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
— Mary Daly
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We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the…
— John Gallagher, Jr.
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As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Iran is a country that talks about, denies the Holocaust, promises to wipe out Israel, is engaged in terror throughout the world. This is a…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly…
— Joseph Sobran
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With the first step, the number of shapes the walk might take is infinite, but then the walk begins to define itself as it goes…
— A. R. Ammons
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In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he…
— Jakob Bohme
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....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether…
— Daniel Goleman
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Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
— William James
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I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
— Margaret Fuller
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When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most…
— G. H. Hardy
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