Impulse Quotes - Page 26

• Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner.

  Philip Slater

  Attitude, Successful, Feelings

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• There are worries that seem to me sustained by the love of worry. For example, that people are reading from screens, or listening to recorded books. Why scold the impulse to enjoy language and narrative in whatever form it takes?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Book, Reading, Worry

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• What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

  James Salter

  Writing, Ultimate

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

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Ifs

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• I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.

  Quentin Crisp

  Thinking, Way, Emotion

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• Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

  Alfre Woodard

  Elites

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• For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Littles, Little Things

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• Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Real, Love Is, Men

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.27, Penguin

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• Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.

  Flower A. Newhouse

  Men, Knowing, Christ

  Lecture, Emmanuel, God with Us, April 6, 1969.

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• Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Real, Compassion, Two Sides

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• For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Long, Soul

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• As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Long, Feminine

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• Thought for Today: I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner wisdom and creative impulses. I shed past fears and doubts, replacing them with courage and love. I nurture my future with the same care that I would give to a newborn baby.

  Doreen Virtue

  Letting Go, Dream, Baby

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 09, 2012

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• I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.25, Penguin

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• Great things do not just happen by impulse,
  but as a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Great Things, Succession

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• Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vulgarity Is, Inability, Pieces

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fighting, Evil, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Maturity, Cfs

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• 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, Done, Great Things

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• Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

  John C. Bogle

  Enemy, Siren Song, Compound Interest

  John C. Bogle (2012). “The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation”, p.234, John Wiley & Sons

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• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Passion, Self, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.30, BookRix

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• So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Nature”, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and restoring it to its natural position, the adjustment thus releases the natural flow of nerve impulse. When the maze of nerves, or Nature’s communication system, supplies the body with the energy it needs for well being, you have health.

  B. J. Palmer

  Communication, Body, Flow

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• Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Weakness, Charity

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• A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

  John G. Lake

  Character

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.151, Whitaker House

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• If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Shopping, Pure, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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