Impulse Quotes

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Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice… — James J. Kilpatrick
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection… — Paul Caponigro
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to… — Brooks Atkinson
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of… — Ruth Bernhard
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated… — James Madison
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This… — Max Weber
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,… — Max Weber
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism. — George Gilder
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a… — Alexander Hamilton
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the… — Samuel Johnson
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval. — Mark Twain
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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