Impulses Quotes

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ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. — Napoleon Hill
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
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
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
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
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
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
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
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
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. — Eugene Jarvis
Some things are up to us [eph' hÃªmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,… — Epictetus
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of… — Rutherford B. Hayes
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it — Unknown Author
We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death. — Sam Tanenhaus

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