Impulse Quotes

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I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. — Donna Murphy
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And… — Judy Chicago
Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses. — Noel Coward
We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not… — John F. MacArthur
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to… — Wendell Berry
If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the… — P.G. Wodehouse
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief… — Ed Mayo
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively… — Karen Horney
Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of… — William Wordsworth
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which… — Justin Winsor
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from… — Abraham Maslow
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world.… — William James
The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from… — Robert Lowell
I couldnâ€™t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles,… — Bridget Riley
In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become… — Zbigniew Brzezinski

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