Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 629 authors

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out… — Leo Ornstein
All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is, of understanding, which… — Kimon Nicolaides
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are… — Frederic Bastiat
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.… — Will Durant
I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. — Philip Larkin
I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood… — John Steinbeck
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a… — Richard Wagner
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows… — Peter Sloterdijk
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'Ãªtre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination… — Ludwig von Mises
Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to… — Harriet Lerner
He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to… — Laird Barron
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. — Samuel Johnson
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesâ€”mapping, charting, and architectureâ€”to try and make sense of… — Julie Mehretu
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. — G. Stanley Hall
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia

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