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Creativity is the evolutionary impulse in the Universe. — Deepak Chopra

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. — Eric Hoffer

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. — Emile Souvestre

I take a step closer to her because that's my impulse - to be near her. — Emery Lord

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. — H.L. Mencken

The news that Daisy Miller was surrounded by half a dozen wonderful mustaches checked Winterbourne's impulse to go straightway to see her. — Henry James

Here were we, drawn together by mutual rage and the impulse toward cooperation, led off into forgetfulness by the establishment of a rude rhythm. — Jack London

I know. For all the planning I was doing to get you to show the people who you are, it turns out you just do it on an impulse. It's so you. — Kiera Cass

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. — Jim Carrey

It was one of those impulse things — Janet Evanovich

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. — Taylor Caldwell

To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse. — Henna Inam

She did it without thinking--At that moment she was pure Gilly again: red-haired, with fury for blood, perfect aim, and nothing to lose. — Tiffany Baker

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell

I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him. — Kami Garcia

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse — Kelley Armstrong

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you. — Woody Allen

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse. — Zola Jesus

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

The war against terror is not really about terror. It's about a superpower's self-destructive impulse toward supremacy, stranglehold, global hemegony. — Arundhati Roy

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. — Brian Aldiss

Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have. — John Steinbeck

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. — Terence

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

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster

If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others. — Moutasem Algharati

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. — Marlon Brando

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. — Baltasar Gracian

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy ... — Harriet Monroe

Cruel impulses stir all about my kindly heart. — Mason Cooley

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer. — Franz Kafka

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something. — Jeanette Winterson

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse. — Elise Valmorbida

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back. — Rob Thomas

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. — Horace Mann

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. — Daniel Goleman

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse. — Max Nordau

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that. — Ann Leckie

God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. — Deepak Chopra

I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil. — Cassandra Clare

The impulse to win is a valuable thing, right up until you let it make you into a loser. — Tana French

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. — Rupert Everett

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn't?"
He snorted. "You don't just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it. — Dannika Dark

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. — Charles De Lint

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. — Bertrand Russell

The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse. — Laline Paull

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. — Jackie Gleason

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. — Caecilius Statius

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. — Angus Wilson

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. — Ted Dekker

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson

He only knew that he had lived up to his best impulse, and that is all any one can do. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion. — Idries Shah

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed. — Colin Wilson

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me! — Walt Whitman

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it. — Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse. — William James

Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest. — Ellen Hopkins

Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. — Daisaku Ikeda

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. — Eric Hoffer

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

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. — Alexander Pushkin

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed. — Karl Jaspers

I believe there is an evolutionary impulse toward good that is etched on every human heart. It is placed there by the hand of God. — Marianne Williamson

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. — Stephen Fry

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse. — Deepak Chopra

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What is desire?
The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve. — Philip Larkin

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom

I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse — Pier Paolo Pasolini

What persons are by starts they are by nature. — Laurence Sterne

It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away. — Will Christopher Baer

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world. — Edan Lepucki

At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. — Brenda Ueland

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. — Upton Sinclair

On impulse, he leaned over and brushed his lips against hers. — Victorine E. Lieske

Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have. — Susan Wiggs

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa

When the opportunity or impulse is there .. ACT. — Rhonda Byrne

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. — Anna Quindlen

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work. — Marcus Aurelius

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380. — Elon Musk

The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance. — Garry Fitchett