144 Impulse Quotes for You to Enjoy

I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off. Dylan Moran

You Natural Complicated Simple Drive Sense Show Off Way Kids Some Drive-In Football How Off Very Same Impulse Just Depends Want Wanted Much Show Play Play Football

I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically. Edward Zwick

Relationship First Down Believe Think Our Unless Ours Would Threatened Fact Imperial Open Most Obviously Trade Sailed Perry Began Up Historically American Impulse In Fact Burn Japan Us Harbor

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. Frank Harris

Love Goodness Christian Our Churches Degraded Spirit Following Morality Inspiration Crowning Higher Sin Idiotic Were Offered Impulse Being Fiend Paul Capital Turned Things Jesus Rejected Two

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything. Fred Ward

Me Creative Never Felt Always Impulse Anything Rooted

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse. George Packer

Myself Own Addictive My Own Protect Impulse Need

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. George Santayana

Conversation Primary Talk Impulse Use Satisfy

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. Graham Swift

Myself Me Writing Part Very Get Impulse Wanting Away Actually

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn. Gretchen Rubin

You Grateful Reliably Someone More Take Feel Perform Likely Doing Task Any Often Impulse Turn Notice Less Help

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. Havelock Ellis

Day Seen Beginning Rejection Unjustified Other Side Alike Sexual Both Crude Altogether Impulse Held Ignorant Theory Present

A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study. Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Will Differences Field Too Way Significant Area Fact Observation Study Between Real Exist Review Curious Authorities Same Committees Often Impulse Curriculum In Fact Fields Declare Uniform Each

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. Helena Blavatsky

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter. Henry B. Eyring

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy. Henry Villard

Enemy Thought Men Field Several Abandon Possible General Retreat Became Without Left Yielded Officers Any Controlled Getting Impulse As Far As Formal Orders Far Organizations

The United States was born with an imperialist impulse. There has been a long confrontation between Monroe and Bolivar... It is necessary that the Monroe Doctrine be broken. Hugo Chavez

Broken Long Monroe States Has-Been Born Imperialist Between Doctrine Been Impulse Confrontation United United States Necessary

I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. Isabel Gillies

Dyslexic Strong College Think Kid Through Write Had Wrote Very Get Going Impulse Anything Tutors Who Published

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist. Jandy Nelson

Art History School Back Back To School Had Idea Ecstatic Art History Get Artist Going Impulse Interest Interested Exploring

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes. Jared Harris

Time Good You Control Several Respond Rather Put Takes Real Doing Camera Than Front Impulse Real Time After Happening Them Poor Good Actors Reasons Actor Why Actually

Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life. Jean Piaget

Life Respect Age Important Marked Everyone Rules Feature Knows Impulse Children Form Social Themselves Paid Social Life Regulations Groups Play

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself. Jim Crace

Work Good Writing Job Looking Own Worried Some My Own More Advances Also Deals Been Years Contract Itself Very Sitting Impulse Wanted After Which Room Lucky Thing Extent Career

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. Joan Didion

Down Way Those Tries Only Compulsion Compulsive Write Share Accidentally Inexplicable Itself Any Impulse Justify Useful Who Things

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. Joanna Scott

Words Language Sense Correct Rules Rigidity Followed Seem Temptation Obliged Through Prose Make Polished Nonsense Dull Stir Very Begin Trying Gets Impulse After While Convey Meaning Sentences Rebel Keep Harder Resist

Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant. John Cho

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