144 Impulse Quotes for You to Enjoy

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. Tom Flynn

Truth Truth Is Secular Universe Cold Religious About Indifferent Something More Only Accepting Suspect Human Impulse Us Even Resisting

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. Tracy K. Smith

Strange Language Thought Feelings Draw Intricate Out Rather Poetry Part Drowning Invites Than Human Impulse Being Sensed Being Human Them Urgently Us Rooted Tease Numbing

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by. Vikram Seth

Book Simple Important Living Other Tell Impelled Point Write Tends Writer Writers Main He He Or She Feel She Concerned Make Course Sure Impulse As Far As Story Far Really

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases. Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. Virginia Postrel

Out Adornment Personal Impulse Stamp Hard

It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain. Whitney Tilson

Nature Joy Pain Human Nature Down Something More Investors Most Tangible Go Up Than Stocks Going Human Impulse Common Anything

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James

Community Sympathy Individual Without Dies Impulse Away

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction. Sinead O'Connor

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. Stacey D'Erasmo

Beautiful Perspective Lost Ambition Hell Group Every Back Once Bit Out Thousand About Ten Scene Emotional Writes She Does Souls Saints Impression Debut Impulse Hold Fleeting Pages Moment Novel Nearly Desire

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them. Stacey D'Erasmo

I felt the strongest impulse to climb when I entered my first competitions. Adam Ondra

First Entered Strongest Felt Climb Impulse Competitions

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