Elise Valmorbida Quotes

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Elise Valmorbida

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• I have a suicide impulse.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Suicide
  • Impulse

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Control
  • Discipline

• The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Together
  • Impulse

• I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Mouth
  • Impulse
  • Punch

• The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Hard
  • Impulse
  • Stamps

• Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

  

  Epictetus
  • Picture
  • Impulse
  • Survey

• The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Love
  • Religious

• Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Impulse

• Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Body
  • Humans
  • Doe

• I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

  

  William Stafford
  • Kind
  • Impulse
  • Following

• Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Protection
  • Weapon
  • Self-Control

• Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

  

  William Allen White
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Past

• Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Thinking
  • Individual
  • Impulse

• The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Joy
  • Masters
  • Passions

• I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beauty
  • Impulse
  • Heroic Actions

• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Impulse
  • Consent

• The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion.

  

  Alexander Clark
  • Heart
  • Wisdom
  • Sometimes

• The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Art
  • Party
  • Mean

• Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.

  

  Barry Green
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Memories

• Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Suffering
  • Christ
  • Helpful

• I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

  

  Elise Valmorbida
  • Impulse
  • Self-Control
  • Lead A Life