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Impulses are hard to come by these days. -- Jack Levine
Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second. -- Deepak Chopra
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. -- Wayne Dyer
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 personal Impulses and preferences. -- John Stuart Mill
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines. -- Patricia Hampl
God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. -- Van Wyck Brooks
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. -- Walter Benjamin
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. -- Albert Einstein
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. -- Daniel Goleman
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. -- Deepak Chopra
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. -- Kenneth Clark
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. -- Eric Hoffer
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
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. -- Gustav Mahler
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 memories. -- Elie Wiesel
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures. -- Greg Boyle
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 impulses if not practices. -- Gore Vidal
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 fun because it's hard. -- Edward Norton
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 the world goes on to improvement. -- Justin Winsor
I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me. -- Paula Fox
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 the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. -- Marshall McLuhan
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. -- Jim Elliot
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. -- Egon Schiele
I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like to live and apprehend the problems, the conflicts, the feelings and the impulses of women radically different from me. -- Romy Schneider
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. -- Sigmund Freud
The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel. -- Paul Theroux
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. -- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users. -- Joe Green
Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind. -- Mason Cooley
Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. -- Mason Cooley
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. -- Bertrand Russell
...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes -- Thomas Hardy
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. -- Joseph Joubert
You don't pick up cues, you pick up impulses. -- Sanford Meisner
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses. -- Elsa Maxwell
Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems. -- Matthea Harvey
All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence. -- Helene Deutsch
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. -- George Santayana
Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses. -- Noel Coward
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature. -- Samuel Johnson
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy..." 469 -- Hilary Mantel
Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to. -- Susan Moody
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. -- Seneca the Younger
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them. -- Mason Cooley
Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses. -- Luc de Clapiers
Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people. -- Stephen Hopkins
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules. -- Tadashi Suzuki
I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work. -- William J. Clinton
ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT. -- Napoleon Hill
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. -- Leo Tolstoy
People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places. -- John Darnielle
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it -- Isidore Isou
Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future. -- Mary Stewart
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. -- Patricia Churchland
Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on. -- N.D. Wilson
Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses. -- Steve Burns
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I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. -- Donna Murphy
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. -- Edith Wharton
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself. -- Sigmund Freud
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess. -- John Steinbeck
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. -- David Levithan
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. -- Richard Prince
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. -- Joseph Conrad
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. -- Paul Schullery
Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses. -- William Westney
Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red? -- Neal Shusterman
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? -- Scott Westerfeld
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. -- Erich Fromm
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. -- Igor Stravinsky
We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death. -- Sam Tanenhaus
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. -- Eugene Jarvis
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. -- Sydney J. Harris
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. -- Rex Stout
Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff. -- Mel Gibson
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility -- Immanuel Kant
Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. -- G. Stanley Hall
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. -- H. G. Wells
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, -- Deborah Harkness
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message. -- John Paul Caponigro
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages. -- Kiese Laymon
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. -- Robin Wasserman
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ... -- Storm Jameson
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off. -- James Surowiecki
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world. -- Robin Wasserman
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. -- Ellen Willis
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being. -- Virginia Postrel
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. -- Ellen Willis
That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct. -- Nancy Jo Sales
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. -- Bertrand Russell
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. -- Bill Bryson
It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane. -- Rebecca Solnit
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them -- Will Durant
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives. -- William Moulton Marston
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. -- Margaret Fuller
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. -- James Ramsey Ullman
The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses. -- Wilhelm Reich
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. -- David Brooks
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth. -- John Kador
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
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. -- Ronald Reagan
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious. -- Christopher Hitchens

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