Impulsive Quotes

• I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.

  Sharon Tate

  Honesty, One Day, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

  Steig Larsson

  Action, Trouble, Consequence

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• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Running

  1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

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• More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

  Morris L. Ernst

  Errors, Behavior, Indecision

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• When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Swimming, Sea, Important

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• I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!

  Lisa S.

  Thinking, Sometimes, Bargains

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  Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Patience

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

  Beth Gibbons

  Emotional, Sensitive Person, Persons

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Rejection, Missing

  Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

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• Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  Abba Eban

  Men, Missing, Suffering

  Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”

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• Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

  David A. Bednar

  Increase, Decrease, Righteous

  "We Believe in Being Chaste". www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

  Sarah Dessen

  Charming, Deliberation, Appeals

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• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Sin, Said

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.

  Elton John

  Shopping, Clothes, Forever

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• My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

  Joseph Barbera

  Should Have, Years, Short Lived

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

  David Tang

  Character, Emperor, Greater

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• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

  John Green

  Action, Scared, Perpetual

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

  Horace Mann

  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Self

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.313

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• I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

  Margaret Cho

  Pain, Sadness, Fighting

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• A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

  Adora Svitak

  Negative Words, Adults, Way

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• Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Thinking, Looks, Too Much

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.223, Random House

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• On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

  Fidel Castro

  Hasty

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• When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

  Brian Bosworth

  Stupid, Decision

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