91 Quotes About Impulse

You know you are somewhat impulsive, but you have learned to control yourself. The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions - carelessness, approximation, imprecision, whether your own or others'. In such instances your dominant passion is the impatience to erase the disturbing effects of that arbitrariness or distraction, to re-establish the normal course of events.

The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

We often throw rocks not realizing that they’re going to land somewhere.

People would be so much more at ease if they acted on impulse rather than reason. That’s why drugs are so effective in curing mental illness—because they impair our judgment. Don’t try to think too much.

Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.

... every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason.

But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later.

There's an old Talmudic belief that you build a fence around an impulse. If that's not good enough, you build a fence around the fence.

My impulse is to perform for menI obey their dreams