Impulse Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Apology, Growth, Realizing

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.6, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

  Steve Goodier

  Giving Up, Difficult Situations, People

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• Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

  Steve Burns

  Battle, Trading

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• Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

  Abraham Myerson

  Life, Block, Believe

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• Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Writing, Remembrance, Needs

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• We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.234

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• The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  People, Important, Orchestra

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

  Gary Zukav

  Creating, Creative, Creation

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Men, Arjuna

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.156, Vintage

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• Impulse buying is not macho. Men rarely call the Home Shopping Network.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Years, Consciousness

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• The impulse to write the poem, that impulse is a great dramatic impulse. But hell, anybody could write a play. I do know this: all writers are not dramatists. You may be a great writer, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're a dramatist. Very few people have done both.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Mean, Play

  Interview with Miles Marshall Lewis, believermag.com. November 1, 2004.

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• I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying.

  Lemar

  Crazy, Goes On, Buying

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, People, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Struggle, Writing

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

  Dane DeHaan

  Struggle, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Waiting, Three

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.286, Courier Corporation

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• The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.

  John Steinbeck

  Confused, Book, Reality

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

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• We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.

  T. J. Jackson Lears

  Powerful, Light, Effort

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Memories, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.731, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

  Russell Green

  Powerful, Climate, World

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