Impulse Control Quotes

• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

  Marya Mannes

  Happiness, Intelligent, Emotional

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, Self Control, Selling

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.83, Mango Media Inc.

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• What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Long, Doe, Planning

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Home, Would Be, Portfolios

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• I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

  David Eagleman

  Labs, Study, Scientist

  "The Possibilian" by Burkhard Bilger, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

  Anna Quindlen

  Years, Safe, Remember

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• I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Boys, Mad

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• We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Strong, Queens, Children

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• I'm really not good with impulse control.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Vampire, Academy

  Richelle Mead (2007). “Vampire Academy”, p.277, Penguin

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• There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Childhood, Bipolar, Transition

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