144 Impulse Quotes for You to Enjoy

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work. Patti Smith

Work You Creative Yourself Painting Tools Give Gives Shares Drove Like Look Him Doing Artist Impulse Moment

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work. Patti Smith

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays. Paul Muldoon

Teacher School Laziness High Would High School Poem Poems Weekly Write Instead Accepted Were Than Essay Essays Impulse Certain

The sort of enjoyment that we all get from that voyeuristic impulse of looking into other people's house as we pass them, and the idea that there might be something sinister or strange going on in the houses we pass every day or in our neighborhood, is a very compelling idea. Paula Hawkins

Day Strange Every Day People Looking Every Other Our Neighborhood Something Idea House Sort Houses Pass Sinister Very Get Going Impulse Them Might Compelling Enjoyment

A first impulse was never a crime. Pierre Corneille

Crime First Never Impulse

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. Polykarp Kusch

The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that. Rajkummar Rao

Character Made Control Possible Only Particular Like Know Am Continue Lot Going Impulse Want The Only Thing Script Decisions Thing Honest

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it. Richard Branson

Love People Competition Adding Bit Able Both Deliver Idea Know Well Up Australia Blue Getting Impulse Fun

I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope. Robert J. Shiller

Sometimes Own Significance Insect Details About Diverse Facts Catch Know Look House Proteins Microscope Impulse Want Which Little Galaxies Molecules Such Things Species Things

Contracts are not a holy relic in football. You can like this attitude or not, but it's the truth. Sometimes you have to think about if it is meaningful to try out a new impulse. Robert Lewandowski

Attitude Truth You Sometimes Try Think Out Relic About Football New Like Contracts Impulse Meaningful Holy

I've always had this impulse to be destructive. Russell Brand

Destructive Had Always Impulse

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. Ruth Wilson

Me You Church Believe Religious Betray Something Never Involved Understand Always Been Get Going Impulse Want Strain Rid

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. Saint Basil

Soul Heart Thought Men Our Ruling Easily Prone Purity He Part Individually Primary Sin Major Knowing Concern Sins Impulse Intention Ordained Formed Who Therefore Each Element Received

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. Samuel Alexander

Future Object Delayed Weave About Properties More Calculated Begins Inflame Impulse Fruition Fancy Hence Enjoyment Images Desired Desiring

I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.' Sherry Turkle

The necessity for rules and strictness is a way of dealing with an enormously powerful impulse: Germans are among the most emotional people on the planet. Maybe it has to do with the fact that, as a nation, they are always drawn back to nature and the forest. Simon Rattle

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains. Stephen Graham Jones

You Our Negotiate Eat Only Brains Impulse Us Zombie

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people. Sue Monk Kidd

I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart. Sue Monk Kidd

Heart Sometimes Separation Believe Preserving Our Inside Pursuit Misguided Read Greater May Impulse Common Want While Us Search Compels

There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and worms. Somehow I thought that it was a magical world of insects, and I wanted to go there. It was the same impulse as 'Pikmin' - I wanted to go into that world. Tim Schafer

Mom World Thought Insects Worms Would Magic Magical Somehow Lift Bugs Rock Go Up Bunch Same Impulse Wanted

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