Impulse Quotes - Page 22

• Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Limits, Labels, Way

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• Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Character, Men, Office

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• In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

  Robert Fripp

  Love Is, Creative, Despair

  "Robert Fripp's Diary". Robert Fripp, DGMlive.com, May 27, 2010.

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• Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

  Rene Leriche

  Pain, Simple, Nerves

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• Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.

  Che Guevara

  Hate, People, Soldier

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• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

  John Philip Sousa

  Country, Believe, Giving

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• No word is capable of carrying the impulses one
  wants to send with it.

  Isidore Isou

  Want, Capable

  "Lettrisme: into the present" by University of Iowa. Museum of Art, Mandeville Art Gallery, (p. 71), 1983.

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• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  Samuel Alexander

  Fruition, Fancy, Enjoyment

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• TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Temptation, Purpose, Commit

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

  Marina Warner

  Children, Two, Years

  Marina Warner (2016). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Mean, Promise, Demand

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• The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.

  Rudolf Otto

  Mind, May, Horror

  Rudolf Otto (1959). “The Idea of the Holy”, p.25, Ravenio Books

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• There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

  Dennis Potter

  Writing, Analysis, Fiction

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• 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

  Rivers, Topics, Kind

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• Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

  Samuel Gridley Howe

  Wisdom, Thinking, Important

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• The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.

  Alfred Bunn

  Grief, Heart, Weight

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• The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

  David Dunn

  Lying, Giving, Secret

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• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Creative, Intellectual, Spirit

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• The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.

  Bill Roorbach

  Lying, Successful, Facts

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• The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Life, Distance, Animal

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

  Lara St. John

  Crowds, Strange, Reactions

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• Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions of light-years- a group of aliens so intelligent, so insouciant, so utterly above it all, they feel no need whatsoever to equip their spacecraft with windows so that they can gaze out on all that celestial beauty-but then immediately upon landing, their first impulse is to get in some hick's ass with a flashlight.

  Dennis Miller

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

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• She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.

  Bill Griffith

  Sister, Father, Artistic

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• The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Art, Writing, Empathy

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