Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 629 authors

Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues.… — Alex Bledsoe
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction. — Xunzi
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,… — Bertrand Russell
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in… — Bertrand Russell
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity. — Saul Bass
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,… — Plato
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of… — John Stuart Mill
I write poetry because I canâ€™t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long… — Gabriela Mistral
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and… — Charles Darwin
A word does not start as a word â€“ it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which… — Peter Brook
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human… — Egon Schiele
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, â€œIf I could move you as much as it… — Greil Marcus
Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the… — Ansel Adams
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is,… — Rudolf Steiner
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a… — Ludwig von Mises
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by… — Stephen Covey
Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male… — Camille Paglia

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