Avoiding Quote by Steve Redgrave

The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions…

— Bertrand Russell

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

“In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day…

— Chitralekha Paul

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

— Nell Scovell

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience…

— Thomas Merton

Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to nature, for…

— Masaaki Hatsumi

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their…

— Daniel Goleman

Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when…

— Stephen W. Porges

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets.…

— Gena Showalter