Impulses Quotes

287 quotes by 240 authors

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. — Eric Hoffer
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This… — Hans Hofmann
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely… — Daniel Kahneman
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty… — Caroline Knapp
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. — Gustav Mahler
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward… — Marshall McLuhan
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. — Henry Miller
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's… — Edward Norton
I act on impulse and I go with my instincts. — Gordon Ramsay
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. — Franz Schubert
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of… — Gore Vidal
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and… — Elie Wiesel
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man,… — Frances Wright
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, thereâ€™s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. — Marquis de Sade
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will… — Victor Hugo
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris

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