144 Impulse Quotes for You to Enjoy

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. John Hanning Speke

Good Evil Slightest Those Civilisation Accurately Impulse Africa Native Where Whether Places Profess European Describe Received

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. Jon Meacham

Will Living Universe Intrinsic Faction Because Human Impulse Next Now

I realized there's a difference between creating a character and sustaining a character. The challenge that comes with sustaining a character is that you have this sudden impulse to think about all the things the audience liked. Jordan Gavaris

Character You Challenge Think About Between Liked Audience Impulse Difference Sustaining Realized Creating Sudden Things

When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers. Josh Gad

Time You Creative Pilot Three First Writers Bubble Almost Know Doing Opposed Get Impulse Against Room Full Works Actor

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads. Josh Pais

Work People Outside Part Heads Course Get Committed Impulse Teach

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish. Julia Cameron

Me Memories Change Writing First Year Down Think Took Once Carried Out About Finish Absolutely Emotional Absolutely Not Pouring Along Period Wrote Because Said Doing Came Itself Very Quickly Intense Impulse Autobiography Story Sat Started

When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back. Laurence Yep

You Natural Back Strike Horrible Something Done Impulse

I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people. Lenny Abrahamson

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. Leo Ornstein

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Hope Home Family Will Worldly Futile Solve Force Makes How Cure Impulse Children Conflicts Might Teaches Right Violence

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you. Marshall Goldsmith

You World Result Become Before Control Controlling Trigger Rather More Outside Outside World Becomes Opposed Begin Than Behaviour Impulse Happening Choice Act Your Function Aware

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective. Matthew Desmond

People Perspective College Big Situation Out Kind About Facts Had Around Inequality Understand Go Hear America Hang Impulse Them Confronted Figures Homeless University

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair. Michael Cunningham

Great Book Cake Entitled Remove Despair Great Book Only Only Difference Perfect Write Make Equally Equation Trying Same Impulse Difference Them

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing. Michael Korda

Book Particular Without Came Any Impulse Publishing

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. Mike White

World Compassion Approach Characters About Aesthetic Trying Impulse Create Humanistic

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them. Mohsin Hamid

First National Birds Our Flying Unnatural Borders Constructs Prospective Overhead Lines National Borders Artificial Impulse Maybe Them Us Ignore Maps

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler

Love Selfish Own Lust Addition Our Pleasure Sexual Sexuality Some Give Unbridled Rather Merely Thus Involved Also Than Impulse Want Loved Them Persons Use Need

People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse. Paolo Bacigalupi

You Natural People Somewhere Else Stay Area Somewhere Else Disaster Know Still Go Human Impulse Just Actually Right

When you open your mind up, and you go into a creative state, you can't just switch if off. When you have an idea, a creative impulse, and then you ignore it, it can keep you up when you just want to go to your bed - which is why it's great to have voice recorders on your phone! Paolo Nutini

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor. Patrick deWitt

Funny Humor Degree Hiding Recognized Ability Horrible Poems Point Write Had Attempts Lightness Wrote Dialogue Very Any Impulse Short Intentionally Stories Short Stories Certain Certain Point Fun Serious Novels Number

Everyone has a creative impulse, and has the right to create, and should. Patti Smith

Creative Everyone Impulse Create Should Right

More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. Patti Smith

Life Me My Life Singing Other Thread More More Than Anything Through Write Taken Been Led Than Impulse Anything Places Mean Desire

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