Impulses Quotes

287 Impulses quotes by 240 unique authors

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane.… — Andrew Solomon
I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories… — Anna D. Shapiro
When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another. — Jeff Bridges
Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he… — Michael C. Hall
The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on… — Deepak Chopra
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
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
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 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
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
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
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

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