Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 628 authors

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result… — Otto Rank
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us… — Roy Baumeister
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that… — Walter J. Phillips
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen,… — Mark Kurlansky
If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make… — Eric Maisel
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our… — Richard Schmid
Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that… — Laurance Rockefeller
To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to… — Walt Disney
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. — Walt Disney
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live… — Matthew Arnold
I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near… — Dylan Thomas
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention… — Saint Basil
I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit… — Chrissie Wellington
One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic… — Lynne McTaggart
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. — Alexander Pushkin
I don't think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by… — Marlon Brando
Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't… — Louis Schwartzberg
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. — Olga Broumas
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream,… — Robert Edmond Jones

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