Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. Votes: 3
William JamesAll our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them. Votes: 2
Aime MartinHope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Votes: 2
Karl A. MenningerAct on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest. Votes: 2
Ellen HopkinsThere is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. Votes: 0
Daniel GolemanFamily, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyThe climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse. Votes: 0
Russell GreenLet shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. Votes: 0
Aaron HillAll through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. Votes: 0
Paul AusterFalse conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. Votes: 0
Horace MannThat's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue. Votes: 0
Sanford MeisnerFred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. Votes: 0
John ArlottBlot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusTALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceI realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. Votes: 0
Elon MuskShamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. Votes: 0
Terence McKennaObeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. Votes: 0
Brian AldissDare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. Votes: 0
Edward WestonUnder his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. Votes: 0
Andre BretonThe love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse. Votes: 0
William JamesBut what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. Votes: 0
Ted DekkerI am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath! Votes: 0
Lord ByronPrayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleArt is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. Votes: 0
John French SloanMadness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. Votes: 0
Jim CarreyThe ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyThe impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonThe "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me. Votes: 0
Micah PerksThe narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. Votes: 0
Robert CooverThat's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action. Votes: 0
Twyla TharpHer impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And Votes: 0
Khaled HosseiniWe proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty. Votes: 0
William DeresiewiczFaith is the eternal elixir. It gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillMusic might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse Votes: 0
George CrumbYour first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. Votes: 0
Stephen KingMy mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying! Votes: 0
Lindsay LohanThe thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time. Votes: 0
Seamus HeaneyThe very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerGreat things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghI do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. Votes: 0
Marilynne RobinsonDo we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? Votes: 0
George EliotThe impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. Votes: 0
John SteinbeckWhen the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. Votes: 0
TerenceThe art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response. Votes: 0
Mary GaitskillPart of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself. Votes: 0
Graham SwiftCraftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. Votes: 0
Richard SennettWe never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. Votes: 0
C. S. LewisTo our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMoral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. Votes: 0
PlutarchThe impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page. Votes: 0
Jonathan MessingerOur impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control. Votes: 0
Andrew J. WestBe a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyI suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. Votes: 0
Edan LepuckiOne becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome. Votes: 0
Fulton J. SheenEvery dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaTorn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. Votes: 0
Diana Gabaldon