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“Consider meditation, exercise, and forgiveness to bring your impulses, emotions, and movements under your control.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The way most people use and are used by their minds gives substance to the belief that we are barely evolved apes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes we don’t want to move, speak, or act like that. But something deep inside us pushes us to speak and act in that way. Afterward, we feel so ashamed.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.”
― Raymond Queneau

“He would run through a brick wall for you, Mr. Stark.
I know, but sometimes I wish he would just walk around it.”
― Keith Wright

“You can dress up Hate but you can’t stop its stench”
― irfan ishaq

“Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chooses the person one loves after endless deliberation and on the strength of diverse qualities and advantages.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“First, observe and ponder, and then use silence to speak, and then speak through words, then take action to correct something; make sure you achieve something distinctive in the end! Be in haste when necessary, but remember to control not just your mind, but your heart as well. Don’t just take action and don’t just do anything just because you must do something; know the real and true end result, mind your emotions and always get a noble reason for action!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“If we reflect a moment, we shall find that even in the present day, on our own stage, the infallible and inexhaustible source of the ludicrous is the same ungovernable impulses of sensuality in collision with higher duties; or cowardice, childish vanity, loquacity, gulosity, laziness, &c. Hence, in the weakness of old age, amorousness is the more laughable, as it is plain that it is not mere animal instinct, but that reason has only served to extend the dominion of the senses beyond their proper limits. In drunkenness, too, the real man places himself, in some degree, in the condition of the comic ideal.”
― August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“You know you are somewhat impulsive, but you have learned to control yourself. The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions - carelessness, approximation, imprecision, whether your own or others'. In such instances your dominant passion is the impatience to erase the disturbing effects of that arbitrariness or distraction, to re-establish the normal course of events.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“The love impulse in man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.”
― Stacey Ballis, Wedding Girl

“Well, I’ll tell you this, Mr. Michael. You’re going to walk in there, people are going to tell you things and they’ll say it’s true, but know this: instincts beat advice. Your instincts beat everyone else’s conviction. Including mine. What anyone ever tells you can absolutely expire the second something new happens. We already know what to do, sweetie. And most advice can be narrowed down to: it’s best you try again. But our instincts are a powerful tool, you ought to listen to them. And you know, Michael, it’s not always worth explaining to people. We are too rational to believe extraordinary things can happen sometimes. But”—she smiled—“the most extraordinary times I remember were when I quieted the other voices beside me and embraced the room. The other person. A look. Their voice. Their body. Timing. You’ll feel it Michael and it’s more important you snatch those moments right when they appear. Chase that. Does that make sense?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“The reason that success boosts confidence is that it changes your brain’s production and receptiveness to testosterone and dopamine—two chemicals that increase the impulse to try it again.”
― Simon Marshall, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“Fortunately, suppressing an impulse doesn’t always have to decrease your dopamine—it can actually feel good. The key is the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for pursuing long-term goals and has the ability to modulate dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. So suppressing an impulse can be rewarding, as long as it’s in service of your larger values.”
― Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

“It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.”
― Irvine Welsh, Glue

“For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

What is drawing? How does one get there? It’s working one’s way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? �� since hammering on it doesn’t help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently. And behold, how can one remain dedicated to such a task without allowing oneself to be lured from it or distracted, unless one reflects and organizes one’s life according to principles? And it’s the same with other things as it is with artistic matters. And the great isn’t something accidental; it must be willed.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“[T]he institution that human cultures build up upon the hints presented by the environment or by man's physical necessities do not keep as close to the original impulse as we easily imagine. These hints are, in reality, mere rough sketches, a list of bare facts. [...] Warfare is not the expression of the instinct of pugnacity. Man's pugnacity is so small a hint in the human equipment that it may not be given any expression in inter-tribal relation. [...] Pugnacity is no more than the touch to the ball of custom, a touch also that may be withheld.”
― Ruth Benedict, Patterns Of Culture

“Six days and six nights I was writing in a paranoid impulse. Full of fear, that the commenced metamorphosis �� the reincarnation of the spirit of a dead �� might have been disrupted.”
― Klaus Kinski, Paganini (Heyne allgemeine Reihe)

“Wenn wir unsere Projektionen auf andere Menschen erkennen werden wir feststellen, dass unsere Wahrnehmungen als auch unsere Einstellungen gegenüber unserer Mitwelt all jene Impulse und Ideen sind, die wir einst abgelehnt oder verdrängt haben und die trotzdem immer noch in uns schlummern.”
― Nina Hrusa

“Habit energy is there in all of us in the form of seeds transmitted from our ancestors, our grandparents, and our parents, as well as seeds created by the difficulties we ourselves have experienced. Often we’re unaware of these energies operating in us. We may want to be in a committed relationship but our habit energies can color our perceptions, direct our behaviors, and make our lives difficult. With mindfulness, we can become aware of the habit energy that has been passed down to us.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“Rutted faced men such as me do not determine the suitability of life’s terrain. Our terracotta passageway simply unfolds before us awaiting the minor edits we compose in the mistaken notion that as mere actors we also serve as the almighty playwright. In actuality, faltering men stumbling along in life such as me serve at the mercy of our base desires. Caught in cacoethes �� uncontrollable desire �� we manically act to satisfy our wild and occasionally harmful urges. Working slavishly to mollify our wants reduces us to serving as the unwitting chroniclers of the jeremiad canvas painted with the frayed lisle of our shillyshallying élan vital.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“More important than an impulse is the force field generated behind it. The impulse exists through the force field beyond the moment. For example, if you marry someone.”
― thinkingmart.org

“A small instance from your personal life can drive your actions throughout life.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, Jadu

“I do a lot of things without knowing the exact reasons I’m doing them for. I’m run by impulse, that’s my modus operandi.”
― Jeffrey Calhoun, The October Amaryllis

“Earth has many options, but none is good right.”
― Monariatw

“Earth has many options, but none is right.”
― Monaristw

“The most powerful predictor of self-efficacy is “mastery experience,�� a posh way of saying “actually being successful.�� Successfully doing something, even if just once, has a tremendous effect on your self-efficacy. The reason that success boosts confidence is that it changes your brain’s production and receptiveness to testosterone and dopamine—two chemicals that increase the impulse to try it again.”
― Simon Marshall, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

“Focus on your target and fight the impulse to concede too quickly.”
― Linda Babcock, Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

“...without thinking the follow-up thought that prevents a person from following through with the original, she throws the tea in the mug at the screen and watches it drip down, while now, finally, allowing the follow-up thought to come through, the thought that would have stopped her from throwing the tea at the screen in the first place. She feels two things: recognizable regret and dim, unfamiliar power.”
― Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla

“En algún lugar he leído que uno puede acostumbrase a todo y que la rutina es el impulso más fuerte de nuestra vida. No lo creo. Eso es sólo una excusa que utilizamos para no tener que pensar en los sufrimientos de los otros, sí, para no tener que pensar ni tan siquiera en nuestro sufrimiento. Es verdad, el ser humano puede soportar muchas cosas, pero no por costumbre, sino porque en él brilla un tenue resplandor con el que alimenta la secreta esperanza de poder romper algún día con la rutina.”
― Marlen Haushofer