Impulse Quotes

• For the scientific impulse and the religious impulse — the search for fact and the search for value — are the two prime and vital movements of the human spirit. … Granted exactly equal validity, pursued with exactly equal sincerity, the search for fact and the search for value lead to the threshold of the world of meaning which is at once their origin and their goal.

  

  Alan McGlashan
  • Religious
  • Impulse
  • Scientific

• The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Writing
  • Impulse

• Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

  

  William James
  • Reason
  • Enough
  • Poor

• When under the influence of certain or some reasons or causes alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here the low instincts are unbridled or unrestrained, the brute appearsand rule over or dominate, stifling every noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin or downfall or decline of any humanity in man.

  

  African Spir
  • Humanity
  • Rule
  • Alcohol

• I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Wish
  • Self
  • Cult

• If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Creative
  • Impulse
  • Good Ideas

• I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

  

  Eugene Jarvis
  • Teenager
  • Computer
  • Megalomaniacs

• Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Love
  • Stop
  • Neighbor

• Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.

  

  William Westney
  • Practice
  • Teaching
  • Seems

• Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

  

  William E. Woodward
  • Civilization
  • Benefits
  • Modesty

• When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Actors
  • Creative
  • Bubbles

• Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Desire
  • Moments
  • Values

• Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

  

  George Eliot
  • Thought
  • Inspiration
  • Agree

• I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

  

  Michael Sandel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Parent

• Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

  

  Judith Wright
  • Life
  • Love
  • Force

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

  

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

• When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Heaven
  • Angel
  • Tragedy

• All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Men
  • Action
  • Desire

• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  

  Kay Hooper
  • Human
  • Conscious
  • Fantasy

• The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Children
  • Father
  • Moments

• There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

  

  Milton Sapirstein
  • Assumption
  • Impulse
  • Fanatics

• The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

  

  William James
  • Lovers
  • Consequence
  • Thinker

• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Environment
  • Feelings
  • Ability

• What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Desire
  • Fire
  • Straws

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