Impulse / Impulses Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Impulse / Impulses:

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. Sydney J. Harris

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

Alan Ball

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Michael Palin

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

Antoine Predock

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Henry Miller

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Elie Wiesel

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

Nelson A. Miles

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Gore Vidal

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Van Wyck Brooks

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Mason Cooley

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

Diane Ackerman

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

Loretta Lynch

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Daniel Goleman

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Albert Einstein

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Jim Elliot

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.

Richard Thaler

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Jack Levine

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Eugene Jarvis

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Walter Benjamin

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

Judy Chicago

Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.

Clifford Ross

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Stephen Hopkins

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

William Moulton Marston

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

William J. Clinton

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Gordon W. Allport

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

Deepak Chopra

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Kenneth Clark

Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.

Ashwin Sanghi

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

Maria Montessori

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

Lindsey Buckingham

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Gustav Mahler

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Nancy Jo Sales