Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

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 couldn’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
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of… — Ursula K. Le Guin
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… — Saul Bellow
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a… — Hari Kunzru
ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. — Napoleon Hill
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate… — Philip Larkin
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against… — Ian Fleming
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no… — Alan Lightman
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing… — Abraham Maslow
God knows greed won't vanish. Neither will hatred or chauvanism. Human nature is a stubborn thing. But it isn't beyond control. Even if our core… — Robert Wright

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